President of the King’s Privy Council for Canada Dominic LeBlanc speaks at a press conference while Prime Minister Mark Carney listens, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Thursday, June 19, 2025. Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS/Patrick Doyle

Dominic LeBlanc , the cabinet minister leading U.S. trade talks, will travel to Washington to meet with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick just days after Canada pledged to remove most of its retaliatory tariffs on US goods.

“We are looking, I hope, for an agreement that will put us in a better position than we are right now,” LeBlanc said Monday in a French-language radio interview on Canada’s public broadcaster.

LeBlanc said the two sides have discussed “circumstances that are very interesting for the American government,” without providing furthe

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