Senior members of Canada’s cabinet have held talks with United States President-elect Mr. Donald Trump’s nominees to lead the departments of commerce and the interior, as Ottawa works to hold off the threat of punishing tariffs.
Canada’s newly-appointed Finance Minister Dominic Leblanc and Foreign Minister Melanie Joly met with Howard Lutnick, Mr. Trump’s commerce secretary nominee, who will also lead the country’s tariff and trade agenda.
Interior secretary nominee Doug Burgum was also at the meeting held at Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
