Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared Thursday that Canada is not yet “safe” of the tariffs proposed by President Donald Trump, and that the country needs to continue pressing in the EU to deactivate the threat.
Trudeau today declared at the beginning of a meeting with the main Canadian cities that although Canada has taken measures to meet Trump’s demands, as greater investments on the border and the creation of a ‘Tsar of the Fentanyl’, that has not eliminated the threat.
“For the next few weeks we will have to maintain this spirit because we are not yet safe,” he said.
The prime minister added that Canada “totally agrees” with the US that the fentanil “must be erased” from the planet and that those responsible for their production and distribution “must be punished hard.”
In a last minute agreement, on Monday Trudeau and Trump agreed measures to suspend for 30 days the entry into force of 25% tariffs on Canadian imports in the US. One of them was the appointment by Canada of a ‘tsar of the fentanilo’.
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Washington accuses Canada and Mexico of being the duct for which the fentanyl arrives in the United States. Trump has used the threat of tariffs against the two countries to cut the flow of the dangerous drug.
Also this Thursday, the Minister of Public Security of Canada, David McGuinty, revealed that in the next few hours Canada will present to the US the terms of the work of the ‘Tsar of the Fentanyl’.
McGuinty added that Canada will appoint the holder of the position before the end of the 30 -day period of suspension of the tariffs announced on Monday.
But the Canadian minister also declared in a press conference that Ottawa will take advantage of conversations with the Trump administration about Fentanil to “present our American counterparts that there is also a drug trafficking” from the United States to Canadian territory that has to be stopped.
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With EFE information
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