President Trump says his 25% tariff on imports from Canada will go into effect on Tuesday,

despite the efforts of Canadian officials who've been trying to persuade their American counterparts

that they are working on border securities and have improved it.

David McGinty is Canada's Minister of Public Safety.

This week, he's been in Washington, meeting with administration officials.

I want to remind people the reason President Trump says he's opposing these tariffs,

he posted this on truth social, said drugs are still pouring into our country for Mexico and Canada

at very high and unacceptable levels until it stops or is seriously limited.

The proposed tariff scheduled to go into effect on March 4th will indeed go into effect. What do you say to that? I think what we say is we've had a

wonderful four days here in Washington, D.C., meeting with our counterparts. Both folks in the Senate,

the House, I brought down the head of our Canada Border Services Agency,

brought down the head of our RCMP, brought down our new fentanyl czar to meet with

executives and folks in the White House, for example. So I think what we've been able to show

this week is enormous progress on that border. And it's important for us to remember that

a border is a two-way street. We've made progress in terms of southern flowing

problems, and we're making progress with the United States on northern flowing problems.

What's been the response to that? What do they say to that? I think we're all encouraged

because we're all remembering just the extent to which we're connected here. We have had a

relationship, but goes back 150 plus years, a very

productive one, frankly, a special relationship between both our countries, not something that

neither of us think want to compromise. So I think what we're hearing back is thank you for bringing

us up to speed, thank you for showing us these practical measures, and they've been all kinds of

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