{"id":2947,"date":"2024-11-26T15:41:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T15:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trudeau-says-he-spoke-to-trump-in-wake-of-tariff-threat\/"},"modified":"2024-11-26T15:41:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T15:41:47","slug":"trudeau-says-he-spoke-to-trump-in-wake-of-tariff-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trudeau-says-he-spoke-to-trump-in-wake-of-tariff-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Trudeau says he spoke to Trump in wake of tariff threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he spoke to Donald Trump Monday night after the president-elect shared plans to use his first day in office to slap 25 percent tariffs on Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a good call,\u201d Trudeau said this morning on Parliament Hill. \u201cWe obviously talked about laying out the facts, talking about how the intense and effective connections between our two countries flow back and forth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last night on Truth Social, Trump shared his first-day priorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs everyone is aware, thousands of people are pouring through Mexico and Canada, bringing Crime and Drugs at levels never seen before,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The move would hit more than $400 billion worth of annual Canadian exports to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc released a statement Monday night to stress that border security is their top priority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaw enforcement agencies from our respective countries \u2026 work together every single day to disrupt the scourge of fentanyl coming from China and other countries,\u201d said Freeland, who chairs a special Cabinet committee focused on bilateral relations in face of Trump 2.0.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau said he\u2019d convene a meeting with his provincial counterparts this week to discuss the United States. \u201cThere\u2019s work to do but we know how to do it.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he spoke to Donald Trump Monday night after the president-elect shared plans to use his first day in office to slap 25 percent tariffs on Canada. \u201cIt was a good call,\u201d Trudeau said this morning on Parliament Hill. \u201cWe obviously talked about laying out the facts, talking about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}