Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club to discuss several issues, including trade, border security, and other global concerns. The dinner lasted three hours and covered topics such as trade, border security, fentanyl, defense, Ukraine, NATO, China, the Middle East, and pipelines.
Trump’s transition did not respond to questions about what they had discussed or whether the conversation alleviated Trump’s concerns about the border.Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday he had an “excellent conversation” with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club after the president-elect's threat to impose significant tariffs on two of America’s leading trade partners raised alarms in Ottawa and Mexico City.
"Tariffs are a crucial issue for Canada and a bold move was in order. Perhaps it was a risk, but a risk worth taking,” Daniel Béland, a political science professor at McGill University in Montreal. Trudeau said Trump got elected because he promised to bring down the cost of groceries but now he's talking about adding 25% to the cost of all kinds of products including potatoes from Prince Edward Island in Atlantic Canada.
To Nelson Wiseman, professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, Trump"doesn’t need convincing that new tariffs on Canadian products would not be in U.S. interests. He knows that, but cannot say it because it would detract from what he has said publicly. His goal is to project the image that he gets action when he talks.”
Trump also spoke about fentanyl from Mexico and Canada, even though seizures from the Canadian border are few in comparison to the Mexican border.
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