Americas
Canada to Trump: We Have Complaints About the Border, Too
- PM concerned illegal firearms, drugs crossing into Canada
- Trump calls Canada ‘very bad abuser,’ pledges 25% tariffs
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) vehicle.
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Canada’s prime minister said it’s “in the interest of Canadians as well as Americans” to strengthen border security and raised concern about the rising volume of illegal guns and drugs flowing north from the US.
Justin Trudeau made the comment the day after US President Donald Trump threatened again to put 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods, citing the flow of undocumented migrants and fentanyl across the borders from two of the US’s closest neighbors — and singling Canada out as a “very bad abuser.”