Trudeau Travels To Florida To Meet With Trump At Mar-A-Lago After Speaking Against Tariffs

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

88% : On Saturday, while leaving a hotel in West Palm, Trudeau told reporters that "it was an excellent conversation" with Trump the night before.
74% : Trudeau is the first leader from the Group of Seven countries to visit Trump since the Nov. 4 election.
49% : When Trump imposed higher tariffs during his first term in office, other countries responded with retaliatory tariffs of their own.
44% : Trudeau was expected to dine with Trump at Mar-a-largo Friday night, according to senior sources who spoke to CBC News on condition they not be named due to the sensitivity of the trip.
44% : Although Trump once called Trudeau "weak" and "dishonest" during his first term, ties between the two countries have remained among the closest in the world.
43% : The U.S. Border Patrol made 56,530 arrests at the Mexican border in October alone -- and 23,721 arrests at the Canadian one between October 2023 and September 2024.Trump also railed about fentanyl from Mexico and Canada, even though seizures from the Canadian border are few in comparison to the Mexican border.
36% : Also attending the dinner, the person told the AP, were Republican Senator-elect David McCormick of Pennsylvania, and his wife Dina Powell, a former deputy national security adviser under Trump, as well as Katie Telford, Trudeau's chief of staff.
33% : Trump posted on social media that he had spoken with her and she had agreed to stop unauthorized migration across the border into the United States.
32% : Trudeau said Trump got elected because he promised to bring down the cost of groceries, but now he's talking about adding 25% to the cost of all kinds of products, including potatoes from Prince Edward Island.
25% : Joining Trump and Trudeau at dinner were Howard Lutnick, Trump's nominee for commerce secretary, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Trump's pick to lead the Interior Department, Mike Waltz, Trump's choice to be his national security adviser, and the three men's wives, a person familiar with the dinner plans who was not authorized to speak publicly and did so on condition of anonymity told the Associated Press.
25% : "Trump made the tariff threat Monday while railing against an influx of illegal migrants, even though the numbers at the Canadian border pale in comparison to the southern border.
24% : The meeting comes after Trudeau earlier Friday cautioned that if Trump follows through on this threat to impose sweeping tariffs on Canadian products, he would be raising prices for Americans and hurting American businesses.
22% : Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico if the countries don't stop what he called the flow of drugs and migrants across southern and northern borders.

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