How the Canadian press is reporting on todays tariff developments [View all]
This link is to the CBC reporting on today's developments.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-trump-speak-trade-war-1.7448805
To get Trump to shelve his punishing tariffs, Trudeau told him Canada is pressing ahead with a $1.3-billion border security plan that includes reinforcing the 49th parallel with new choppers, technology and personnel and stepping up its co-ordination with American officials to crack down on Trump's stated priorities: illegal drugs and migrants.
Trudeau said, all told, there will be 10,000 front-line personnel working along the border as part of a push to make it safer.
The prime minister also made a series of new commitments to Trump, including a promise to appoint a new fentanyl "czar." And he promised to list Mexican cartels, one of the top purveyors of fentanyl and other drugs in Canada and the U.S., as terrorists under Canadian law.
Trudeau said Canada is launching a "Canada-U.S. Joint Strike Force," that will be tasked with combatting organized crime and money laundering — and he's kicking in $200 million in funding to get it off the ground
I posted this development earlier today titling the post "Canada Folded" and subsequently took heat that it wasn't a fold and my integrity as a DU member was questioned. Well I have been around since 2017 and plan on sticking around. If I'm a pain in your ass, so be it.
Cheers!
Kilgore
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