Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday U.S. President Donald Trump will hold off on levying tariffs on Canada for at least 30 days after Canada made a series of commitments to improve security along the border.

The country can let out a collective sigh of relief — at least for now.

To get Trump to shelve his punishing tariffs, Trudeau said Canada is reinforcing the border with new choppers, technology and personnel and stepping up its co-ordination with American officials to stop the flow of fentanyl.

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    12 hours ago

    That $1.3B wasn’t demanded or promised today. They did it preemptively in mid-December to avoid this whole situation.

    They committed $200M and bunch of drug/border theatre today. Basically just allowing Trump to save face for caving.

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      12 hours ago

      I guess we’ll know who caved depending on whether the fucker applies tariffs for real in a month or not.

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        You think the dementia riddled fucktard is gonna remember to do that?

        I’m more worried about the traitor filth in the Heritage Foundation who are destroying our country from within with their limp orange puppet. They’re anti-american terrorist trash.