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Canada Begins Making Key Border Changes After Trudeau Meets with Trump

President-elect Donald Trump has achieved in less than four weeks what President Joe Biden never even tried in nearly four years.

Trump did this, in fact, simply by negotiating on behalf of Americans, whose interests Biden and the Democrats routinely ignore.

According to Axios, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau emerged from a meeting with Trump this weekend at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, determined to improve border security in what one Canadian official described as “a visible and muscular way.”

That comment came from Canadian Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc. On Sunday, LeBlanc told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that he and Trudeau had spoken with Trump and Commerce Secretary nominee Howard Lutnick “about tariffs and what they would mean to the economy.”

In other words, Trump’s very public use of tariff threats as a negotiating tactic seems to have paid dividends.

“There’s already hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars spent, but we’re going to take additional measures,” LeBlanc said.

In the nation’s early years, Republicans such as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison touted tariffs for revenue and statecraft purposes.

No self-respecting revolutionary, of course, dared to propose an income tax. Thus, tariffs effectively funded the entire federal government, a comparatively minuscule enterprise in those days.

But Jefferson and Madison also regarded tariffs as an indispensable tool when dealing with foreign governments. The Founders embraced free trade in principle, as liberty-loving people do, but they also demanded reciprocity.

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