Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau flew to Florida to meet with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Canada’s CBC News reported. The meeting comes in the wake of Trump’s threats to impose tariffs on goods coming from Canada.

Trudeau was expected to dine with Trump at Mar-a-largo Friday night, according to senior sources who spoke to CBC News on condition of anonymity because of the trip’s sensitivity. The sources said the meeting was pushed by Canadian officials, the Canadian broadcaster said.

Trudeau’s plane landed at Palm Beach International Airport at about 5:30 p.m. local time. A smiling Trudeau declined comment as he returned to his West Palm Beach hotel late Friday from Mar-a-Lago. Trump’s transition team did not comment on the meeting when reached by CBS News.

Joining Trump and Trudeau at the dinner were Howard Lutnick, Trump’s nominee for commerce secretary, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Trump’s pick to lead the Interior Department, Mike Waltz, Trump’s pick to be his national security adviser, and the three men’s wives, a A person familiar with the dinner plans and who was not authorized to speak publicly and did so on condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press.

The dinner, the person told the AP, also included Republican Sen. David McCormick of Pennsylvania and his wife Dina Powell, a former deputy national security adviser under Trump, as well as Katie Telford, Trudeau’s chief of staff.

On Saturday, leaving a West Palm hotel, Trudeau told reporters that “it was an excellent conversation” with Trump the night before. He did not comment on questions about whether tariffs were part of the conversation or about his relationship with the president-elect.

The meeting comes after Trudeau earlier Friday warned that if Trump follows suit threats to impose extensive tariffs on Canadian productswould he raise prices for Americans and hurt American businesses.

Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico if the countries do not stop what he called the flow of drugs and migrants across the southern and northern borders. He said he would impose a 25% tax on all products into the United States from Canada and Mexico as one of his first executive orders.

“It’s important to understand that Donald Trump, when he makes these kinds of statements, he plans to implement them. There’s no doubt about that,” Trudeau told reporters on Prince Edward Island in Atlantic Canada earlier Friday.

“Our responsibility is to point out that not only would he hurt Canadians, who work so well with the United States, but he would actually raise prices for American citizens and hurt American industry and business,” he added.

Trudeau said Trump was elected because he promised to lower the cost of groceries, but now he’s talking about adding 25% to the cost of all kinds of produce, including Prince Edward Island potatoes.

These tariffs could essentially blow up the North American trade pact that Trump’s team negotiated during his first term. Trudeau noted that they managed to renegotiate the deal, which he calls a “win-win” for both countries.

“We can work together like we did before,” Trudeau said.

Although Trump once called Trudeau “weak” and “dishonest” during his first term, ties between the two countries have remained among the closest in the world. Trudeau is the first leader from the Group of Seven countries to visit Trump since the Nov. 4 election.

Trump aide Corey Lewandowski, speaking on Fox News Friday night, said he was “confident” that Trudeau “will come down and have a conversation with the president and say, ‘Sir, what can we do to keep it here the border open? what can we do to keep the goods flowing. we know we have a problem, we are here to fix it?

Trump made the tariff threat Monday as he battles an influx of illegal migrants, though the numbers at the Canadian border pale in comparison to the southern border.

The US Border Patrol made 56,530 arrests at the Mexican border in October alone – and 23,721 arrests at the Canadian border between October 2023 and September 2024.

Trump also raised the alarm about fentanyl from Mexico and Canada, although seizures from the Canadian border are few compared to the Mexican border. U.S. Customs agents seized 43 pounds of fentanyl at the Canadian border last fiscal year, compared to 21,100 pounds at the Mexican border.

Canadian officials say lumping Canada in with Mexico is unfair but are ready to make new investments in border security.

“We will work together to address some of the issues,” Trudeau said. “But at the end of the day, it’s through lots of really constructive conversations with President Trump that I’m going to have, that’s going to keep us moving forward on the right track for all Canadians.”

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday that she is sure of it a tariff war with the United States will be averted. Trump wrote on social media that he had spoken with her and that she had agreed to stop unauthorized migration across the US border.

When Trump imposed higher tariffs during his first term, other countries responded with retaliatory tariffs of their own. Canada, for example, announced billions in new tariffs in 2018 against the United States in a good response to new taxes on Canadian steel and aluminum.

Canada is the number one export destination for 36 US states. Nearly $2.7 billion worth of goods and services cross the border every day.

Canada is also the largest foreign supplier of steel, aluminum and uranium to the United States and has 34 critical minerals and metals that the Pentagon is interested in and investing in for national security.