Canada’s prime minister to up border security after meeting with Trump

Canadian officials will be stepping up security at the country’s border with the United States after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with President-elect Trump in Florida for dinner on Friday, Nov. 29. That’s according to Canadian Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, a top government official, who was there for the talks. 

Trump announced last week he would levy 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico if they did not stop undocumented people and drugs from crossing their respective borders into the U.S. 

Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador to the U.S., told the Associated Press Trudeau was successful in getting the president-elect to understand that lumping the flow of migrants and drugs into the U.S. from Canada with those from Mexico is unfair.

“The message that our border is so vastly different than the Mexican border was really understood,” Hillman said. “The facts are hard to deny.”

Still, Trudeau has promised to increase northern border security in a “visible and muscular way,” LeBlanc told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

After their meeting, Trump posted on social media that it was “productive” and Trudeau had “made a commitment to work with us.”