Washington Post: Freeland -- a former journalist whom Trudeau named foreign minister in 2017 as part of a cabinet shuffle designed to prepare the government for the first Trump administration -- said that for several weeks, she and Trudeau had been "at odds about the best path forward for Canada," including on how best to respond to the "grave challenge" posed by the U.S. president-elect's threatened tariffs of 25 percent on Canadian imports. Canada sends three-quarters of its exports to the United States, and economists project that such levies could plunge Canada into a recession (Washington Post).
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