Canada can win trade war: Foreign affairs minister Mélanie Joly

Canada is among the countries waiting to see what Trump's 2 April reciprocal tariffs look like.

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"We are the biggest customer of the US," Joly told the BBC's World Service Weekend programme. "We buy more from the Americans than China, Japan, the UK and France combined."

Joly said tariffs and increased prices are a priority for Canadians as voters prepare to head to the polls to elect a new prime minister later this year.

The US president has imposed 25% tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from Canada. Trump has also vowed to impose a sweeping range of "reciprocal" tariffs on 2 April.

Joly said that because the US and Canadian economies are so intertwined, "we have the most leverage in the world when it comes to the US".

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