TORONTO — Roughly $900 billion in annual trade between Canada and the United States — and with it, traditionally chummy bilateral ties — is on the brink of upheaval, with President Donald Trump threatening to impose sweeping tariffs on Canada as early as this weekend.

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is back in Washington, D.C., today to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio as Canada faces the threat of devastating tariffs landing as early as Saturday.

Trump is threatening to impose 25 per cent across-the-board tariffs on imports from Canada starting on Feb. 1 though Joly says things are still in transition while Trump hasn’t yet confirmed a commerce secretary. Joly spoke with Secretary of State Marco Rubio for half an hour by phone Wednesday and will meet him in person next week.

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The leader of Canada's most populous province of Ontario says he will be calling a provincial election next week because he says needs a mandate to fight President Donald Trump's threatened tariffs.

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Joly to meet with U.S. counterpart Rubio Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is back in Washington, D.C., today to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio as Canada faces the threat of devastating tariffs landing as early as Saturday.

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