WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump says he will decide Thursday night whether to include oil in his tariff plan as he confirmed his intention to impose devastating duties on Canadian imports on Saturday.
"Because they send us oil, we'll see," Trump told reporters while signing executive actions in the Oval Office Thursday afternoon.
Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc sent a video describing Canada's border security efforts to Howard Lutnick, Trump's nominee for commerce secretary — part of Canada's pitch to avoid the devastating duties. LeBlanc met Lutnick at Mar-a-Lago late last year after he and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travelled there for a dinner with Trump a few days after the president made his initial tariff threat.
Trump didn’t implement the duties on his first day back in office, as he'd vowed to do, but later said they'd hit both countries on Feb. 1. "It is likely to help show the investments that we're making and that they're working," McGuinty told reporters Wednesday.
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