Canada PM Trudeau to meet with Trump on Friday in Florida, media reports

Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper, citing 2 unidentified sources, reported that Trudeau was successful Florida to conscionable with Trump. CNN, citing a source, aboriginal reported that Trump was going to person meal with Trudeau connected Friday nighttime astatine his Mar-a-Lago resort.

Canada’s Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc is traveling with Trudeau, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp reported.

Trump threatened connected Monday to enforce a 25% tariff connected imports from Canada and Mexico until the countries clamped down connected drugs, peculiarly fentanyl, and migrants crossing the border.

Officials from Mexico, Canada and China, on with large manufacture groups, person warned that the hefty tariffs threatened by Trump would harm the economies of each countries involved, origin inflation to spike and harm occupation markets.

Any deed to the Canadian system would adhd to Trudeau’s woes astatine a clip erstwhile his popularity has sunk successful portion owed to a slowing system and a accelerated surge successful the outgo of surviving implicit the past fewer years. Polls amusement Trudeau’s Liberals would suffer to the absorption Conservative enactment successful an predetermination that indispensable beryllium held by precocious October 2025.

Trudeau this week pledged to enactment agreed against Trump’s tariffs threat, and called a gathering with the premiers of each 10 Canadian provinces to sermon US relations.

Canada is the world’s fourth-largest lipid shaper and sixth-largest earthy state producer. The immense bulk of its 4 cardinal barrels per time of crude exports spell to the U.S.

Trump’s program does not exempt crude lipid from the commercialized penalties, 2 sources acquainted with the program told Reuters connected Tuesday.