Report: Trudeau to meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago after speaking against tariffs

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Report: Trudeau to meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago after speaking against tariffs

********* Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet with President-elect Donald Trump Friday at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, Canada’s CBC News reported. The meeting comes in the wake of Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on goods coming from Canada. 

Trudeau will dine with Trump at Mar-a-largo Friday night, according to senior sources who spoke to CBC News on condition they not be named due to the sensitivity of the trip. The sources said the meeting was pushed for by ********* officials, the ********* broadcaster said.

Trudeau’s plane landed at Palm Beach International Airport at about 5:30 p.m. local time. 

The meeting comes after Trudeau earlier Friday cautioned that if Trump follows through on this threat to impose sweeping tariffs on ********* products, he would be raising prices for Americans and hurting ********* businesses.

Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico if the countries don’t stop what he called the flow of drugs and migrants across southern and northern borders. He said he would impose a 25% tax on all products entering the U.S. from Canada and Mexico as one of his first executive orders.

“It is important to understand that Donald Trump, when he makes statements like that, he plans on carrying them out. There’s no question about it,” Trudeau said to reporters in Prince Edward Island in Atlantic Canada.

“Our responsibility is to point out that he would not just be harming Canadians, who work so well with the ******* States, but he would actually be raising prices for ********* citizens as well and hurting ********* industry and business,” he added.

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.

Those tariffs could essentially ***** up the North ********* trade pact that Trump’s team negotiated during his first term. Trudeau noted they were able to successfully re-negotiate the deal, which he calls a “win-win” for both countries.

“We can work together as we did previously,” Trudeau said.

Trump made the tariff threat Monday while railing against an influx of ******** migrants, even though the numbers at the ********* border pale in comparison to the southern border.

The U.S. Border Patrol made 56,530 arrests at the ******** border in October alone — and 23,721 arrests at the ********* one between October 2023 and September 2024.

Trump also railed about fentanyl from Mexico and Canada, even though seizures from the ********* border are few in comparison to the ******** border. U.S. customs agents seized 43 pounds of fentanyl at the ********* border last fiscal year, compared with 21,100 pounds at the ******** border.

********* officials say lumping Canada in with Mexico is unfair but they are ready to make new investments in border security.

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“We’re going to work together to meet some of the concerns,” Trudeau said. “But ultimately it is through lots of real constructive conversations with President Trump that I am going to have, that will keep us moving forward on the right track for all Canadians.”

******** President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday she is confident that a tariff war with the ******* States will be averted. Trump posted on social media that he had spoken with her and she had agreed to stop unauthorized migration across the border into the ******* States.

When Trump imposed higher tariffs during his first term in office, other countries responded with retaliatory tariffs of their own. Canada, for instance, announced billions of new duties in 2018 against the U.S. in a ****-for-tat response to new taxes on ********* steel and aluminum.

Canada is the top export destination for 36 U.S. states. Nearly $2.7 billion worth of goods and services cross the border each day.

Canada is also the largest foreign supplier of steel, aluminum and uranium to the U.S. and has 34 critical minerals and metals that the Pentagon is eager for and investing in for national security.

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