India, Feb. 5 -- Canada will increase its spending on emergency border measures to CA$1.5 billion (approximately US$1.036 billion), appoint a border czar and declare drug cartels as terror organisations, as part of a deal to earn a 30-day reprieve from the tariffs threatened by US President Donald Trump.
The announcement in this regard was made by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday, after he had two telephonic conversations with Trump on Monday, hours before the 25% tariffs were to come into force.
Canada had announced a CA$1.3 billion (about US$898 million) border plan to stem illegal immigration to the US and the flow of the deadly drug fentanyl. Those measures came into force after Trump's original threat in this regard s...