Global Trade & Innovation Policy Alliance Summit: Peter Copeland on Canada’s digital weakpoints
Global Trade & Innovation Policy Alliance Summit: Peter Copeland on Canada’s digital weakpoints
The Reform Act could have saved Canada from Liberal leadership drama: David Livingstone for Inside Policy

Trudeau to meet with premiers as Trump threatens hefty tariffs on Canadian goods [Video]

Categories
Canadian National News

Ontario premier set to speak at 10:15 a.m. ET at Queen’s Park about U.S. president-elect’s plan to add a 25 per cent tariff to goods crossing into the country from Canada and Mexico.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he’s agreed to meet with his provincial and territorial counterparts after Donald Trump threatened to impose hefty tariffs on Canadian goods.

The U.S. president-elect said Monday night that on his first day back in the White House, he would impose a 25 per cent tax on all goods imported from Canada and Mexico.

Speaking to reporters Tuesday morning, Trudeau said he plans to meet with Canada’s premiers “this week” to discuss how to approach the Canada-U.S. relationship.

“This is a relationship that we know takes a certain amount of working on, and that’s what we’ll do,” Trudeau said before heading into a meeting with his cabinet.

“One of the really important things …

Russia after the fall of Assad: Balkan Devlen, Alexander Lanoszka, and Richard Shimooka
Russia after the fall of Assad: Balkan Devlen, Alexander Lanoszka, and Richard Shimooka
Islamist group using Canada to plot caliphate schemes must be banned: Joe Adam George in the National Post