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Hours after United States President Donald Trump enacted long-threatened tariffs on Canadian goods, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addressed gathered media in the West Block about the country's response. After Trudeau laid out Canada’s retaliatory tariffs in the March 4 press conference, he dismissed Trump’s legal justification for the trade war—the flow of fentanyl across the northern border amounting to a national emergency—as “pretext” for levies the U.S.
We responded to concerns—including from the president—by implementing an ambitious $1.3-billion border plan, a border plan that includes generational investments in new AI and imaging tools to stop the flow of fentanyl in its tracks, stronger co-ordination and information sharing with American agencies, along with the deployment of drones, helicopters, and additional personnel to keep our borders secure.
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