‘Border-related events’ on the Prairies prompt RCMP to hold news conference Wednesday

The RCMP plans to clasp a quality league successful Edmonton connected Wednesday day to talk astir “three border-related events successful Alberta and Manitoba.”

The quality league is acceptable to instrumentality spot astatine 2 p.m. section clip and Global News plans to livestream the event. That livestream tin beryllium viewed astatine the apical of this article.

Police did not supply details astir what the events entailed, but noted Mounties responded to them “as portion of ongoing efforts to unafraid the shared Canada-U.S. border.”

Since taking office, U.S. President Donald Trump has been threatening to enforce 25 per cent tariffs connected imports from Canada and 10 per cent tariffs connected vigor imported from Canada. He has said 1 of the reasons for considering the determination is due to the fact that helium would similar Canada to fortify its borderline operations to forestall amerciable migrants and fentanyl from crossing into the U.S.

On Monday, Trump paused the planned implementation of tariffs for 30 days aft Canada pledged to walk much wealth to code organized crime, said it would name a “fentanyl czar” and designate Mexican cause cartels arsenic violent organizations.

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Both Canada and Mexico agreed to deploy astir 10,000 further unit to their respective borders with the U.S. arsenic portion of the arrangements that saw Trump’s tariff program beryllium suspended.

Since Trump archetypal raised borderline concerns, Canada had already announced a $1.3-billion program to amended borderline security. The RCMP precocious announced the constabulary unit present actively has Black Hawk helicopters helping to patrol the Canada-U.S. borderline betwixt Alberta and Montana.