Canadian finance minister notes Trump tariff threat in resignation letter

Canada's finance minister noted President-elect Trump’s tariff threat in her resignation letter dated Monday.

“Our country today faces a grave challenge,” Chrystia Freeland said in a letter addressed to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “The incoming administration in the United States is pursuing a policy of aggressive economic nationalism, including a threat of 25 per cent tariffs.”

“We need to take that threat extremely seriously,” she added.........

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