Donald Trump’s bold approach is already paying off…
Canada will increase border security after President-elect Donald Trump‘s meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Trump met with Trudeau in Florida over the holiday weekend after threatening a 25% blanket tariff on all products imported from north of the border, unless action was taken to curb the flow of illegal drugs and illegal immigrants into the United States. (RELATED: Trump Threatens Canada And Mexico With Massive Tariffs)
The president-elect also made a tariff threat against Mexico. (RELATED: Mexican President Signals Policy Shift Following Trump’s Tariff Threat)
Canadian Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc told CBC News on Sunday that measures have been taken to secure the U.S.-Canadian border, but it is important to step up border security in a “visible and muscular way.”
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“We also discussed additional measures and visible measures that we were going to put in place over the coming weeks,” LeBlanc told the Canadian news outlet.
“There’s already hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars spent, but we’re going to take additional measures, and I’ll have more to say with the minister of finance in the coming days or weeks,” LeBlanc added.
The Canadian official also said that he and Trudeau raised concerns about guns being smuggled from the U.S. into Canada during the weekend meeting at Mar-a-Lago and that they “talked about the challenge that fentanyl represents in Canada,” which he noted are “shared objectives.”
Trudeau said he had an “excellent conversation” with Trump during the meeting.
Among those at the dinner were Howard Lutnick, Trump’s pick for commerce secretary; North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, in line to lead the Interior Department; and Mike Waltz, Trump’s choice to be his national security adviser. Accompanying Trudeau were Canada’s public safety minister, Dominic LeBlanc, whose responsibilities include border security, and Katie Telford, Trudeau’s chief of staff.
Trump called it a “very productive meeting” with Trudeau and said the Canadian prime minister has “made a commitment to work with us to end this terrible devastation of U.S. Families” on the fentanyl crisis.
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Castro’s baby is afraid of The Republic.
As they ALL should be.
It sounds like this meeting will help both sides. This is how it is supposed to work!