The Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeaumet this Friday in Florida with the president-elect from the United States, donald trumpa few days after the Republican would threaten with imposing on its North American partners a surcharge 25% on all imported goods.
Although the visit was not on the official agenda of the prime minister or the president-elect had confirmed the meeting, reports of press confirmed the arrival of Trudeau to the Palm Beach International Airport (Florida), close to the residence of trump in Mar-a-Lago.
Trudeau dined with trump in Mar-a-Lago on Friday night. Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc accompanied the prime minister, according to sources cited by the New York Times.
The meeting takes place after the president-elect of the United States has put the governments of Mexico and Canada after announcing that it will apply a tariff 25% on all goods imported from those two countries, as well as a surcharge additional 10% on Chinese products, until both – which are its main trading partners – stop the arrival of illegal immigration and drugs.
The visit to Mar-a-Lago on Friday, which was reported by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), is intended to be a direct effort by Trudeau to show that you have a plan to address the border concerns of trump and prevent the application of tariff.
In the morning, the prime minister told the press Canadian that he and trump “They will work together to address some of the concerns” of the Republican and respond to those problems.
The prime minister also warned that what is really “important to understand” is that when trump does statements like those “he plans to carry them out. There is no doubt about it”,
So much Trudeau as the president of MexicoClaudia Sheinbaum, reacted to the announcement by warning trump that these duty They would cause enormous damage to the economy of the entire region.
The Canadian prime minister met on Wednesday night with the heads of government of the 11 provinces of that country to outline a strategy common in the face of the threat of president-elect from USA
Trudeau stressed at that meeting that “the number of migrants trying to Travel from Canada to the US is a fraction of those trying to Travel from Mexico to the United States,” his office said in a statement.
The strategy of Canada so far is to disassociate as much as possible from Mexico and emphasize that the northern border of the United States is secure to prevent trump make your threat come true and impose duty that economists warn will plunge the country into a recession. EFE
