Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with President-elect Donald Trump at his Florida resort on Friday, days after Trump threatened to impose tariffs on all Canadian imports. Earlier in the week,

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau flew to Florida and met with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club on Friday evening, less than a week after the U.S. president-elect threatened heavy tariffs on imports from North American trading partners.

The president-elect’s opening salvo in trade and border talks with the United States’ neighbors is casting a harsh light on the North American alliance.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he had an "excellent conversation" with Donald Trump in Florida after the president-elect's threat to impose significant tariffs on two of America's leading trade partners raised alarms in Ottawa and Mexico City.

Trump said Monday on Truth Social that one of his first executive orders would be to hit Mexico and Canada with a blanket 25% tariff. Mexico and Canada are the second and third top suppliers of goods to the U.S., according to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. The U.S. imports the most goods from China.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on this threat to impose tariffs on Canadian products, he would be raising prices and hurting American businesses.

The leaders of Mexico and Canada responded quickly, and in different ways. Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, jumped on the phone to Mr Trump to chat about the “intense and effective connections” between their countries. His deputy, Chrystia Freeland, released a statement about the importance of border security.

President-elect Donald Trump said that his meeting at Mar-a-Lago with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was “productive,” but made no mention of backing off his tariff threat.

Trudeau flew to Florida on Friday evening and had dinner with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence, days after Republican Trump had pledged to impose tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports after he is sworn in as president in January.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada on Friday night landed in Florida to see President-elect Donald J. Trump at Mar-a-Lago, two officials with direct knowledge of the visit said, after a threat by Mr.