Trump called Trudeau “a miles-left lunatic” in 2022 for requiring truck drivers crossing the border to be vaccinated in opposition to COVID
Reuters
02 December, 2024, 12:00 pm
Last modified: 02 December, 2024, 12:10 pm
Canadian Top Minister Justin Trudeau promised President-elect Donald Trump that Canada would toughen controls over the long undefended joint border, a senior Canadian legitimate stated the day past (2 December).
Trudeau flew to Florida on Friday (29 November) to absorb dinner with Trump, who has promised to slap tariffs on Canadian imports except Ottawa prevents migrants and remedy from crossing the frontier.
Canada sends 75% of all items and providers exports to the United States and tariffs would badly damage the economic system.
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who sat at the head table with Trudeau and Trump, stated the two males discussed additional security features Canada could well well be introducing.
“We will see to gather, as an illustration, additional drones, additional police helicopters, we’re going to redeploy personnel … we imagine that the border is trusty,” he urged the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
“It is miles valuable, I assume, to repeat Canadians and the American citizens that we’re stepping up in a considered and muscular draw, and that is the explanation exactly what we’re going to make,” he added, promising more puny print within the days and weeks to attain.
Canada, he stated, would proceed to hang the case that tariffs would harm every nations, given how interconnected the two economies are.
“I’m assured that the American citizens will mark that or not it is not of their hobby … to proceed in this vogue,” he stated, describing the dinner assembly as very warmth and cordial.
Trump stated on Saturday he discussed the border, commerce, and energy in a “very productive” assembly with Trudeau.
The friendly nature of the dinner contrasts with outdated exchanges between the two males.
Trump called Trudeau “a miles-left lunatic” in 2022 for requiring truck drivers crossing the border to be vaccinated in opposition to COVID. In June 2018, Trump walked out of a G7 summit in Quebec and blasted Trudeau for being “very dishonest and historical.”
At the tip of the dinner, LeBlanc stated, Trump walked Trudeau to his automobile and stated “Support in contact. Call me anytime. Discuss quickly.”
