{"id":28816,"date":"2025-01-30T00:42:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T08:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/joly-to-meet-with-u-s-secretary-of-state-rubio-as-tariff-threat-looms\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T00:42:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T08:42:30","slug":"joly-to-meet-with-u-s-secretary-of-state-rubio-as-tariff-threat-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/joly-to-meet-with-u-s-secretary-of-state-rubio-as-tariff-threat-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Joly to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Rubio as tariff threat looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Foreign Affairs Minister M\u00e9lanie 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.<\/p>\n<p>Joly said Monday that she still believes diplomacy can fend off President Donald Trump\u2019s plan to slap Canada with 25 per cent across-the-board duties.<\/p>\n<p>Joly spoke with Rubio by phone last week and described the new secretary of state as a \u201cgood interlocutor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This will be Joly\u2019s fifth visit to the U.S. since last November\u2019s presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Joly has met with multiple American lawmakers to talk about how the duties would damage the economies of both countries, and to share information about Canada\u2019s $1.3 billion border plan, implemented in response to Trump\u2019s tariff threats.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa has prepared multiple options for retaliatory tariffs, depending on what Trump ultimately does.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a92025 The Canadian Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/government\/2025\/01\/joly-to-meet-with-u-s-secretary-of-state-rubio-as-tariff-threat-looms\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] WASHINGTON \u2014 Foreign Affairs Minister M\u00e9lanie Joly is back in Washington, D.C., today to meet with U.S. Secretary of &#8230; <a title=\"Joly to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Rubio as tariff threat looms\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/joly-to-meet-with-u-s-secretary-of-state-rubio-as-tariff-threat-looms\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Joly to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Rubio as tariff threat looms\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-28816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}