President Donald J. Trump participates in a bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, at Winfield House in London. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
Before he’s even moved back into the White House, Donald Trump has Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Canadian government working hard to fix the broken immigration system that leaks Canadian residents into the United States. Trump threatened Canada and Mexico with 25% tariffs if they didn’t stem the flow of migrants across America’s borders from their countries. Trudeau almost immediately flew to Mar-a-Lago to have dinner with Trump. Shortly after, according to Matthew Rice, the Canadian government announced that new border restrictions were imminent. Rice writes:
Prime Minister Trudeau’s government says new border restrictions are “imminent” just two days after the Canadian head of state traveled to Mar-a-Lago to discuss a devastating 25 percent tariff on Canadian imports that President-elect Trump proposed in recent days. Trump has said he would impose the tariffs on both Canada and Mexico goods unless illegal immigration and the flow of drugs are dealt with.
Canada’s Public Safety Minister, Dominic LeBlanc, says new security measures to stop the flow of migrants to the northern parts of America would be announced in the coming days.
“We’re going to look to procure, for example, additional drones, additional police helicopters, we’re going to redeploy personnel … we believe that the border is secure,” Mr. LeBlanc, who was at the Mar-a-Lago dinner, told the CBC.
“It’s important, I think, to show Canadians and the Americans that we’re stepping up in a visible and muscular way, and that’s exactly what we’re going to do,” he says.
Trump and Mr. Trudeau met for more than two hours at the president-elect’s South Florida club on Friday night, where they dined with officials and discussed ways to curb the flow of immigrants and deadly drugs like fentanyl.
Mr. Trudeau said the meeting was “excellent” and that he looked forward to working with Trump again. The president-elect said in a statement on Truth Social that Mr. Trudeau “has made a commitment to work with us to end this terrible devastation of U.S. Families.”
The president-elect seemed pleased to be dining with the Canadian prime minister, given he was shown grinning from ear-to-ear in a photo posted on X by Mr. Trudeau. After the dinner, Trump said the meeting had gone well.
“I just had a very productive meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, where we discussed many important topics that will require both Countries to work together to address,” Trump said in a statement on Truth Social.
The leader of the Canadian opposition Conservative party, Pierre Poilievre — who, according to polls, could be prime minister in just a few months — said Sunday that Mr. Trudeau is trying to clean up ten years of failed leadership without any real plan to please Trump to an extent where the 47th president won’t impose his 25 percent tariff on Canadian goods.
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Thanks for dinner last night, President Trump. I look forward to the work we can do together, again. pic.twitter.com/lAWFMTtQt7
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) November 30, 2024
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