Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dined with Donald Trump on Friday, after the US president-elect threatened to hit Canadian imports with steep tariffs on the first day of his presidency.
The meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida made Trudeau the first G7 world leader to visit Trump since his victory in the US presidential election this month. It followed phone calls between the two as the Canadian prime minister attempts to avert a North American trade war.
In a Truth Social post, Trump said the leaders discussed the flow of fentanyl and illegal immigrants across the southern US border, energy, the Arctic, “Fair Trade Deals that do not jeopardize American Workers, and the massive Trade Deficit the U.S. has with Canada.”