Leader, it has been over a week since President-elect Trump threatened to slap a 25% tariff on Canadian exports to the United States as soon as he takes office in January. Common-sense Conservatives are calling upon the NDP-Liberal government to bring in a “Canada First” plan to address the mess they have made at the border. We expect additional measures to be taken, including cracking down on illegal drug production and trafficking.

Leader, this is needed, not just to save our economy but to save lives.

Leader, the Prime Minister just met with the Leader of the Opposition and all other party leaders in the other place. What did he tell them about his talk with President-elect Trump?

Not having been at that meeting, I cannot comment upon what he said. I can tell you that the Prime Minister, Minister LeBlanc and this government have been engaged with the President-elect from the first moment the results of the election were announced.

The long conversation the Prime Minister initiated — or the conversations they had together — and the long conversations they had that gave rise to the invitation for the Prime Minister to spend a sociable evening with the President-elect are examples of the importance of the relationship between Canada and the United States — important not only to Canada but to the United States.

This government will continue to work diligently, as it has in the past, with the President-elect to ensure Canadian interests are protected and advanced.

The NDP-Liberals promised a plan to secure the border, and it is not just Americans who are waiting to see it, leader. Also, they want more than extra drones flying along the border. The provincial premiers want to see it, as do Canadians worrying about our broken boarder, leader.

Where is it? How much longer do we have to wait before this plan is actually implemented and enforced?

As Minister LeBlanc has quite correctly pointed out, speaking factually and not in slogans, our border is not broken. Measures have been put in place to secure the border even further. Work will continue to be done.