Canadian leaders ‘united’ following P.E.I.’s ‘positive’ trip to U.S., premier says [Video]

Premier Dennis King is back on Prince Edward Island after visiting the northeastern United States and Ottawa this week to discuss president-elect Donald Trump’s threat of 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian exports. 

“The efforts we put forward with our trade mission and with our Island delegation down to the northeast of the U.S. was positive,” King told CBC News: Compass host Louise Martin on Thursday. 

“I think we left a really good taste in the mouths of Americans with our desire to continue our trade relationship unobstructed and uninterrupted.”

On the heels of that trip, King met with the premiers and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who he said are “united as a country.”

Premier Dennis King is back on P.E.I. after a trade mission to the U.S., plus a meeting with his provincial counterparts and Trudeau in Ottawa. He tells CBC News: Compass host Louise Martin about how the province plans to navigate what he calls an …