Canada drafts border security plan after Trump threatens steep tariffs

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Weeks after winning the election, President-elect Donald Trump took aim at Mexico and Canada over border security. The Great White North appears to be acting as the threat of tariffs looms.

Trump issued his warning to Canada and Mexico last month that if they did not stop the flow of illegal drugs and illegal immigrants across the United States’s northern and southern borders, then the president-elect would impose a 25% tariff on all imports into the U.S. when he entered office.

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