Canadian officials, including Premier Doug Ford, are set to meet with the U.S. commerce secretary in Washington today…days after a dust-up with President Trump that ended with Ontario pausing its surcharge on electricity exports to the US.
Ford says his goal for the meeting is to get a coherent sense of the Trump administration’s plans for tariffs.
Trump threatened to double steel and aluminum duties on Canada on Tuesday, but dropped that to 25 per cent after Ford agreed to halt a surcharge on electricity that Ontario sells to three U.S. states.