Canada’s ambassador to the United States offered more details over the weekend about a dinner meeting between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President-elect Donald Trump, following a tariff threat.
The prime minister’s meeting on Nov. 29 at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, took place after Trump warned that he would impose a 25 percent tariff on Canadian goods if the country failed to secure the U.S. northern border.
Ambassador Kirsten Hillman said that she sat next to the two leaders at the Mar-a-Lago dinner. She said that the Canadian leader had requested an in-person meeting with the president-elect, who invited him to dinner to discuss trade and border issues….