Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes half in a press convention in regards to the Royal Mounted Police’s investigation into “violent felony exercise in Canada with connections to India”, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada October 14, 2024.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Donald Trump’s Florida resort on Friday to satisfy with the U.S. president-elect, days after Trump threatened to slap tariffs on Canadian imports over border-related considerations.
Trudeau, whose public itinerary didn’t record a scheduled go to to Florida, was seen leaving a resort in West Palm Beach, Florida, to go to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, in line with a Reuters witness.
Trudeau’s workplace and Trump’s representatives didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Trump threatened on Monday to impose a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico till the international locations clamped down on medicine, significantly fentanyl, and migrants crossing their borders with the U.S.
Officials from Mexico, Canada and China, together with main business teams, have warned that the hefty tariffs threatened by Trump would hurt the economies of all international locations concerned, trigger inflation to spike and injury job markets.
Any hit to the Canadian financial system would add to Trudeau’s woes at a time when his reputation has sunk partly resulting from a slowing financial system and a surge in the price of dwelling over the previous few years. Polls present Trudeau’s Liberals would lose to the opposition Conservative occasion in an election that have to be held by late October 2025.
Trudeau this week pledged to remain united towards Trump’s tariff menace and known as a gathering with the premiers of all 10 Canadian provinces to debate U.S. relations.
Canadian Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc is touring with Trudeau, CBC News reported.
Canada is the world’s fourth-largest oil producer and sixth-largest pure fuel producer. The overwhelming majority of its 4 million barrels per day of crude exports go to the U.S.
Trump’s plan doesn’t exempt crude oil from the commerce penalties, two sources aware of the plan informed Reuters on Tuesday.
