Like Justin Trudeau, Donald Trump seems to have emerged satisfied with his meeting with his Canadian counterpart.
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The day after his tête-à-tête with the Canadian Prime Minister, the President-elect of the United States wrote on the Truth Social network that he had a “very productive meeting” with Justin Trudeau.
“We discussed several issues on which we must work together such as fentanyl, the many deaths caused by the drug crisis and which result from illegal immigration, free trade agreements that do not harm American workers and the immense trade deficit that the United States has with Canada,” he mentioned.
Donald Trump added that he had been very clear with Justin Trudeau: he will not stand idly by in the face of the number of American citizens victims of the “scourge of the drug epidemic” caused by cartels and fentanyl from China .
The next American president indicated that the Canadian prime minister was committed to working with the United States to end this situation.
The two men also discussed energy, trade and the Arctic, Donald Trump said, adding that these were three “vital” issues that he would tackle upon his arrival at the White House. , and even before the start of his mandate.
Justin Trudeau, for his part, left Florida on Saturday morning, the day after his meeting with Trump. Leaving his hotel, the Prime Minister of Canada simply said that he had had an “excellent conversation” with the president-elect of the United States.
He thanked the president-elect for the meal in a post on X a few hours later. “There is a lot of work that we can accomplish together, once again,” he said.
