Canada PM Trudeau visits Florida to meet with Trump amid tariff threat

WEST PALM BEACH: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Donald Trump's Florida edifice connected Friday to conscionable with the U.S. President-elect, days aft Trump threatened to slap tariffs connected Canadian imports implicit border-related concerns.

Trudeau, whose nationalist itinerary did not database a scheduled sojourn to Florida, was seen leaving a edifice successful West Palm Beach, Florida, to spell to Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, according to a Reuters witness.

Trudeau's bureau and Trump's representatives did not instantly responded to requests for comment.

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 their borders with the U.S.

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 ostentation 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 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 tariff menace and called a gathering with the premiers of each 10 Canadian provinces to sermon U.S. relations.

Canadian Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc is traveling with Trudeau, CBC News reported.

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.