Foreign Affairs Minister M茅lanie Joly will press CanadaB次元官网网址檚 case against damaging tariffs with the new U.S. secretary of state in Washington next week, after Trump repeated a demand Thursday for allies to vastly increase their military spending.

Trump is threatening to impose 25 per cent across-the-board tariffs on imports from Canada starting on Feb. 1. Joly said things are still in flux because Trump hasnB次元官网网址檛 confirmed his new commerce secretary.

B次元官网网址淭here will be lots of rhetoric,B次元官网网址� Joly told reporters on Parliament Hill on Thursday.

B次元官网网址淲e will hear a lot of different versions coming from south of the border. We need to put our head down, we need to be united and we need to defend Canadian jobs.B次元官网网址�

Joly spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio for half an hour by phone Wednesday and will meet with him in person next week. She said Rubio is a B次元官网网址済ood interlocutorB次元官网网址� and sheB次元官网网址檚 had B次元官网网址渃onstructiveB次元官网网址� discussions with him, including when they met last December before his formal confirmation.

B次元官网网址淗e understands that not only this will have an impact on Americans, but this will have an impact on how the U.S. engages in the world, and that will have an impact geopolitically,B次元官网网址� she said in reference to the tariff threat.

B次元官网网址淚 also talked about the importance of standing up against China together. And Rubio himself has been very hawkish against China.B次元官网网址�

Joly said she will meet with B次元官网网址渙ther key Republican senatorsB次元官网网址� during her fifth visit to the U.S. since last NovemberB次元官网网址檚 presidential election. She said Canada will participate in TrumpB次元官网网址檚 planned review of trading practices.

She called for unity on CanadaB次元官网网址檚 trade strategy. The premiers of Alberta, Quebec and Saskatchewan have pushed back on Ottawa for floating the idea of imposing dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs and cutting off energy exports.

B次元官网网址淎lberta jobs are important as Ontario jobs, as Quebec jobs. ItB次元官网网址檚 not a competition,B次元官网网址� Joly said.

B次元官网网址淲e can all work together to make sure that, ultimately, we face together this existential threat against our economy.B次元官网网址�

Also on Thursday, Trump repeated his previous calls for NATO military allies like Canada to spend five per cent of their GDP on defence B次元官网网址� a target that no NATO country currently meets.

In his speech to the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Trump also lamented the United StatesB次元官网网址� B次元官网网址渢remendous deficit with CanadaB次元官网网址� in trade.

B次元官网网址淐anada has been very tough to deal with over the years, and itB次元官网网址檚 not fair,B次元官网网址� he said, adding that the U.S. doesnB次元官网网址檛 need Canadian commodities.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded by citing OttawaB次元官网网址檚 planned increases to military spending and said Canada is a partner to the U.S. in an unstable world.

He said TrumpB次元官网网址檚 vision for an economic boom in the U.S. will require B次元官网网址渕ore of the things that Canada is already sendingB次元官网网址� it, such as energy, minerals and lumber B次元官网网址� all of which Ottawa could block or make more expensive in response to U.S. tariffs.

B次元官网网址淐anada will have a strong, robust response, because we donB次元官网网址檛 want this, but we will respond if necessary,B次元官网网址� Trudeau said.

He said the point of CanadaB次元官网网址檚 tariff strategy is B次元官网网址渘ot to figure out how to manage these tariffs and live with them over the long term, but to figure out how to get them removed as quickly as possible.B次元官网网址�