Canada stands ready to retaliate if U.S. President Donald Trump decides to impose tariffs on Feb. 1, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says.
“We’re ready with a response, a purposeful, forceful but reasonable, immediate response,” Trudeau said in Toronto before a Jan. 31 meeting of the Council on Canada-U.S. Relations.
The prime minister’s remarks come a day after Trump told reporters in the White House he would follow through with his tariff threat against Canada and Mexico on Feb. 1, for “a number of reasons.”
“No. 1 is the people that have poured into our country so horribly and so much,” he said, referring to illegal migrants crossing the border from Canada and Mexico into the United States….