After Trudeau spent years attacking Conservative opposition politicians as “MAGA Republicans,” it must have been very awkward for Justin Trudeau to have to walk into Mar-A-Lago cap in hand asking Donald Trump not to tariff the Canadian economy to death. In this high-stakes diplomatic meeting, Trudeau notably left his top diplomat Melanie Joly as well as deputy PM Chrystia Freeland behind and opted to take chief of staff and public safety minister Dominic LeBlanc.
Despite this meeting, it is not any clearer today than it was when Trump first made his tariff threat as to what exactly he is looking for. Furthermore, it doesn’t appear that Trudeau was successful in convincing Trump to drop his threat.
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