WASHINGTON — Key cabinet ministers returned to Washington Tuesday to keep pressing Canada’s economic case as a month-long pause on Donald Trump’s tariff threat has done little to ease Canada’s concerns.
“I do think there are opportunities for conversations to enable us actually to move away from the conversation about tariffs,” Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said Tuesday.
Wilkinson is making the case among Republicans for a Canada-U. S. energy and resource alliance — part of an effort to align with U.S. President Donald Trump’s goal of making America energy dominant.
He is looking to meet with newly appointed Interior Secretary Doug Burgum — the former North
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