Winning 85.9 percent of Liberal Party members’ votes, he promised that Trump’s trade war would not threaten Canada’s sovereignty. “In trade, as in hockey, Canada will win,” he said in his victory speech earlier this month.

President Donald Trump since his second White House term began has said Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal should become U.S. property.

The former central banker has promised to deliver ‘action’ as country faces hostility on trade from the United States.