No commitment from Trump team to drop tariff threat, after Joly, LeBlanc fly to Florida

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Trump departs a news conference at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., followed by his nominee for secretary of commerce, Howard Lutnick, on Dec. 16.
46% : The Trudeau government has been scrambling for the past month to mount a response to the tariff threat, which has until now included the prime minister and Leblanc, then-minister of public safety, flying to Mar-a-Lago for a dinner meeting with Trump and unveiling a $1.3-billion suite of measures meant to disrupt the flow of fentanyl and strengthen 24/7 surveillance of the border.
41% : Trump threatened last month to slap a 25 per cent tariff on all goods entering the U.S. from Canada and Mexico starting on Jan. 20, his inauguration day, unless the countries curb the flow of drugs and migrants across their borders.
41% : (Rob Gurdebeke/The Canadian Press)The likely key objective for LeBlanc and Joly at the Mar-a-Lago meeting was to figure out if Canada's planned border measures will be enough to dissuade Trump from go through with his tariff threat, said Lori Turnbull, a political science professor at Dalhousie University.
31% : Meanwhile, Trump has followed up with a succession of Canada-focused social media posts, including taunting Trudeau as "governor," suggesting Canadians would be better off living in the 51st state, and claiming he'd urged former hockey star Wayne Gretzky to "run for prime minister.
19% : Trump has repeatedly inaccurately characterized the trade deficit -- about $75 billion US in 2023 -- as the U.S. subsidizing the Canadian economy.

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