White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says U.S. President Donald Trump will implement 25 per cent tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico and 10 per cent tariffs on goods from China on Saturday. She did not offer any details about possible exemptions and said media reports that the tariffs would be delayed until March were false.

Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says prices for Americans will go up if President Donald Trump follows through with his vow to apply sweeping tariffs on Canadian products.

Canada will respond immediately with a series of forceful countermeasures if the U.S. President Donald Trump goes ahead with a threat to impose tariffs, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday. "It's not what we want,

Tariffs are “not what we want, but if he moves forward, we will also act,” he said on Friday. Trudeau made the remarks at a meeting of the Council on Canada-U.S. Relations in Toronto, where he acknowledged the country “could be facing difficult times in the coming days and weeks.

As Donald Trump signed that presidential memorandum in the Oval Office his attention swung back to Canada with a promise, those tariffs are coming on Saturday. Ashley Burke now with Trump's renewed threat.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that Canada “won’t back down” from President Trump’s threat to impose a 25 percent tariff and that Ottawa will respond accordingly until they are removed.