Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs told the BBC's Newsnight her office had not been contacted about the plan.

Summary

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Trump will “probably” announce a tariff reduction deal with Canada and Mexico, tying it to their efforts to curb fentanyl trafficking.

However, Canada’s Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly denied any discussions, stating her office hadn’t been contacted about the plan.

Canada and Mexico imposed retaliatory tariffs after the U.S. enacted 25% levies.

Prime Minister Trudeau condemned Trump’s tariffs as “very dumb” and accused him of attempting to “collapse the Canadian economy” to enable annexation, vowing, "We will never be the 51st state.

  • @[email protected]English
    -29•23 hours ago

    That’s a mighty dangerous game. Two things will happen if this will happen:

    1. Your economy will collapse. Some crucial US goods and services are the only game in town.
    2. US will turn away from it’s old western allies towards the autocratic countries of the world.
    • @[email protected]English
      32•21 hours ago

      The US is clearly already turning away from allies, and running right into the arms of Russia

    • LitEnglish
      10•19 hours ago

      Economy won’t collapse new customers, and sources can be found. US already turned to autocratic countries under Trump.

      so it is non issue.

    • FranklinEnglish
      23•23 hours ago

      it’s already doing that, in order to meet them in the middle we’d have to believe they were doing it in good faith which they aren’t

    • @twistypencilEnglish
      14•21 hours ago

      Seems a dumb move to surround yourself with enemies at your borders and turn to an ally who is across the ocean, over what exactly?

      • qprimedEnglish
        5•20 hours ago

        a desire to inflict his psychosis on the world? chaos in a system offers the best opportunity to “win bigley” with the commensurate loss borne by the non-billionaire class.

        crazy on a ship of fools.