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Trudeau calls emergency meeting over Trump’s Canada tariff threat

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Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau in 2019. Trudeau said he held a ‘good’ conversation with the president-elect after the post. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Justin Trudeau has called an emergency meeting with provincial premiers across Canada after the US president-elect, Donald Trump, threatened a 25% tariff on the United States’ northern neighbour.

Trump posted on social media that he would “sign all necessary documents” to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% tariff on all goods products coming into the United States, adding the levy would remain in place until “such time as drugs, in particular fentanyl, and all illegal aliens stop this invasion of our country!”

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