Two senior Canadian cabinet ministers, Dominic LeBlanc and Melanie Joly, met with members of Donald Trump's transition team in Florida to discuss Canada's new $1.3 billion border plan. The ministers outlined the plan's measures and emphasized the shared commitment to strengthening border security and combating the fentanyl crisis. They agreed to continue discussions in the coming weeks.
OTTAWA — Two senior members of the federal cabinet were in Florida Friday pushing Canada 's new $1.3 billion border plan with members of Donald Trump 's transition team, a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau himself appeared to finally push back at the president-elect over his social media posts about turning Canada into the 51st state.
Lutnick is Trump's nominee for commerce secretary, and Burgum is the former governor of North Dakota and current nominee for secretary of the interior. When announcing Lutnick as his commerce pick Trump said the chief executive of the financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald would be in charge of the Trump"tariff and trade agenda."
The broad strokes of Canada's new border plan were made public Dec. 17, including a new aerial intelligence task force to provide round-the-clock surveillance of the border, and improved efforts using technology and canine teams to seek out drugs in shipments leaving Canada. It was at that dinner on Nov. 29 when Trump first raised the notion of Canada becoming the 51st state, a comment LeBlanc has repeatedly since insisted was just a joke.
"In the long history of sovereign neighbours there has never been a relationship as close, productive and peaceful as the U.S. and Canada," Brokaw says in the video. Freeland's sudden departure, three days after Trudeau informed her he would be firing her as finance minister in favour of Carney, left Trudeau's leadership even more bruised than it already was.
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