After Team P.E.I.’s trade mission to the northeastern United States earlier this week, Dennis King was in Ottawa to meet with Canada’s premiers and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday.
The leaders met to discuss Canada’s response to U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s threat to impose trade tariffs.
In a communique signed by 12 of the premiers and Trudeau, the first ministers said they will do all they can to stop Trump’s proposed 25 per cent tariff on Canadian goods entering the U.S. — even if time is running out with the president-elect set to be sworn in Jan. 20.
“We don’t want to see any tariffs implemented.… We’d like to do everything we can to avoid that,” King told Nil Köksal of CBC’s As It Happens.
“But if we need to prepare a retaliation strategy, that’s what we talked about today.”