Canada to buy helicopters, drones to meet Trump’s demand for tighter border security [Video]

As U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatens to hit Canada with tariffs that could weaken the country’s economy, the Trudeau government is promising to tighten up monitoring at the shared border to address his concerns.

On Monday, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc told David Cochrane, host of CBC’s Power & Politics, that the commissioner of the RCMP and the president of the Canada Border Services Agency have prepared a list of “additional measures that they think would be important for the government to approve quickly.”

“A lot of it is equipment they already have that we would simply supplement. We would add additional helicopters, drones,” he said.

LeBlanc said the government has every intention of approving the measures.

Trump has threatened to slap a 25 per cent tariff on all products entering the country from Canada and Mexico on Jan. 20, 2025, his inauguration day, unless those countries curb the flow of drugs …