Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has agreed to sit down with Canada’s premiers after U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatened to introduce a 25 per cent tariff on all goods imported from Canada on the first day he takes office.
The premiers had requested such a meeting earlier this week to discuss the incoming Trump administration through a letter written to Trudeau before the U.S. president-elect proposed the levy.
“The Team Canada approach is what works,” Trudeau told reporters on Tuesday morning. “I reached out immediately to [Ontario Premier] Doug Ford to agree with him that we would have a first ministers’ meeting this week to talk about the United States, talked with [Quebec Premier] François Legault and some other premiers as well.”