Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Friday to discuss recent tensions between the two countries, days after the United States president-elect threatened to impose 25% tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China. .

According to Reutersthe 78-year-old future US president threatened Monday to impose heavy tariffs, citing concerns about drug trafficking, particularly fentanyl, and immigration problems at the US border.

A Reuters A witness spotted Trudeau, 52, leaving a hotel in West Palm Beach to meet the Republican. However, Trudeau’s office and Trump’s representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The potential tariffs have alarmed officials in Canada, Mexico and China, as well as major industry groups, who have warned that such economic measures could have serious consequences for their economies, causing higher inflation and harm labor markets.

Any hit to the Canadian economy would add to Trudeau’s woes at a time when his popularity has plummeted in part because of a slowing economy and rising costs of living in recent years. Polls show Trudeau’s Liberals would lose to the opposition Conservative Party in an election due to take place by the end of October 2025.

Trudeau pledged this week to stand united against Trump’s tariff threat and called a meeting with the premiers of Canada’s 10 provinces to discuss relations with the United States.

Canadian Minister of Public Safety, Dominic LeBlanc, travels with Trudeau, Radio-Canada News reported.

Canada is the world’s fourth largest producer of oil and sixth largest producer of natural gas. The vast majority of its four million barrels of daily crude exports go to the United States.

Trump’s plan does not exempt crude oil from trade sanctions, two sources familiar with the plan said. Reuters Tuesday.