Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc said it is important to step up border security in a "visible and muscular way" after Trump threatened blanket tariffs.

Threats by President-elect Donald Trump to impose U.S. tariffs on its immediate neighbors appear to have created a split between Canada and Mexico, after Canadian officials said problems with the two countries' borders were not comparable.

The Canadian government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will bolster border enforcement, a top official of his administration said, following the Liberal leader's meeting with Donald Trump in Florida last week.