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TORONTO (AP) — Two apical Canadian Cabinet ministers are visiting Palm Beach to talk separator information and waste and acquisition pinch nan incoming Donald Trump management arsenic Trump threatens tariffs connected each Canadian products.
New Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly will beryllium successful Palm Beach, Florida connected Thursday for nan talks this week, said Jean-Sébastien Comeau, a spokesperson for LeBlanc.
LeBlanc said past week he would meet pinch Tom Homan, Trump’s incoming “border czar,” aft Christmas to talk Canada’s scheme to unafraid nan separator arsenic portion of a bid to debar nan sweeping tariffs.
Comeau said LeBlanc and Joly “look guardant to building connected nan discussions that took spot erstwhile nan Prime Minister met pinch President Trump astatine Mar-a-Lago past month, arsenic good arsenic nan affirmative telephone nan Ministers held pinch Mr. Tom Homan earlier this month.”
“The Ministers intend to attraction connected Canada’s efforts to combat fentanyl trafficking and forbidden migration and nan measures outlined successful Canada’s Border Plan, arsenic good arsenic nan antagonistic impacts that nan imposition of 25% tariffs connected Canadian equipment would person connected some Canada and nan United States,” Comeau added successful a statement.
The Trump modulation squad did not instantly respond to a connection seeking comment.
via Associated Press
We conscionable said pinch premiers astir nan Canada-U.S. relationship.
Team Canada’s moving together to take sides what matters astir to Canadians: bully jobs, a unafraid border, and a beardown business pinch nan United States. pic.twitter.com/sTyqSqRnKW
Trump keeps calling embattled Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau nan politician of nan 51st authorities and has threatened to enforce sweeping tariffs if Canada does not stem what he calls a travel of migrants and narcotics successful nan United States — moreover though acold less of each transverse into nan U.S. from Canada than from Mexico, which Trump has besides threatened.
Canada has a billion-dollar scheme to summation information astatine nan border. LeBlanc past week he discussed parts of nan scheme pinch American officials and is optimistic, but said they person a batch of activity ahead.
Trump has besides made an rumor of nan U.S. waste and acquisition shortage pinch Canada, erroneously calling it a subsidy.
Canada’s ambassador to Washington, Kirsten Hillman, has said nan U.S. had a $75 cardinal waste and acquisition shortage pinch Canada past year. But she noted a 3rd of what Canada sells into nan U.S. are power exports and said location is simply a shortage erstwhile lipid prices are high.
About 60% of U.S. crude lipid imports and 85% of U.S. energy imports are from Canada.
Nearly $3.6 cardinal Canadian dollars ($2.7 billion) worthy of equipment and services transverse nan separator each day. Canada is nan apical export destination for 36 U.S. states.
Flows of migrants and seizures of narcotics are vastly different astatine nan U.S.’s 2 onshore borders. U.S. customs agents seized 43 pounds of fentanyl astatine nan Canadian separator during nan past fiscal year, compared pinch 21,100 pounds astatine nan Mexican border.
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Most of nan fentanyl reaching nan U.S. — wherever it causes astir 70,000 overdose deaths annually — is made by Mexican supplier cartels utilizing precursor chemicals smuggled from Asia.
On immigration, nan U.S. Border Patrol reported 1.53 cardinal encounters pinch migrants astatine nan southwest separator pinch Mexico betwixt October 2023 and September 2024. That compares to 23,721 encounters astatine nan Canadian separator during that time.
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