Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly heads to Washington next week to press the incoming Trump administration not to impose damaging tariffs on Canada.
President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose 25 percent across-the-board tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico when he is inaugurated later this month.
Ministers on the Canada-U.S. cabinet committee met this morning to discuss the retaliatory measures they would deploy if those tariffs are applied, but they didn’t speak with reporters afterwards.
Joly says she spoke this morning with U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham but has not said who is meeting with her in Washington next week….