On Monday, Chrystia Freeland, the finance minister and deputy prime minister, will current her much-delayed fall financial assertion simply in time for the vacations. And the federal government has promised that it’s going to tackle the problem that preoccupied politicians this week: how to reply to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s risk to impose probably devastating 25 p.c tariffs on exports to the US from Canada and Mexico until the 2 nations tighten their borders.
In pushing for the tariffs, Mr. Trump has pointed to an “Invasion” of migrants and huge portions of fentanyl from Canada. Although that declare is just not supported by federal knowledge, Canadian leaders shortly agreed that calling his bluff could be unwise. Danielle Smith, the premier of Alberta, informed me this week that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “understands that with this president, he means what he says. And so when he says that the border is an issue — do something about it, we’ve got to take it a lot more seriously.”
Mr. Trudeau and members of his cupboard gathered the premiers for a digital assembly this week to put out the federal authorities’s plans for the border.
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They embody drones and canine alongside the border, applied sciences to detect fentanyl and the chemical substances used to make it, expanded cooperation with provincial and municipal legislation enforcement businesses and improved intelligence sharing with the US.
Ms. Smith, who’s in any other case not given to praising Mr. Trudeau’s authorities, known as it a “pretty robust approach.”
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