Canadian Cabinet ministers meet with Trump's nominee for commerce secretary in bid to avoid tariffs

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : "Minister LeBlanc and Minister Joly had a positive, productive meeting at Mar-a-Lago with Howard Lutnick and Doug Burgum, as a follow-up to the dinner between the Prime Minister and President Trump last month," said Jean-Sébastien Comeau, a spokesman for LeBlanc.
49% : "Comeau said Lutnick and Burgum agreed to relay the information to Trump.
33% : Trump has been trolling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on social media in recent weeks by calling him the Governor of the 51st state.
30% : Trudeau has told Trump that Americans would also suffer if the president-elect follows through on a plan to impose sweeping tariffs on Canadian products.
26% : Two Canadian Cabinet ministers met with President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for commerce secretary at Mar-a-Lago on Friday as Canada tries to avoid sweeping tariffs when Trump takes office.
25% : Trump has also made an issue of the U.S. trade deficit with Canada, erroneously calling it a subsidy.
18% : Trump has threatened to impose 25% tariffs on all Canadian products if Canada does not stem what he calls a flow of migrants and fentanyl into the United States -- even though far fewer of each cross into the U.S. from Canada than from Mexico, which Trump has also threatened.

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