Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly will press Canada’s case against damaging tariffs with Donald Trump’s new secretary of state next week in Washington.
Trump is threatening to impose 25 percent across-the-board tariffs on imports from Canada starting on Feb. 1 though Joly says things are still in transition while Trump hasn’t yet confirmed a commerce secretary.
Joly spoke with Secretary of State Marco Rubio for half an hour by phone Wednesday and will meet him in person next week.
She says she stressed to Rubio that tariffs will hurt America’s economy and its relationships with other countries and wants to convince the Trump administration that Canada can help Washington stand against China….