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 …