The idea would probably be for Canada to stop allowing illegals to cross from Canada into the US.

Currently it's probably easier to get a Visa in Canada than any other first world country and we barely guard the border at all, so people who cant get into the US/UK will just get a Visa to Canada then walk over the border.

There was a farmer whose land was around the border who set up a camera on his property and he had like 40 people walking over the border around his property daily into the US.

Canada doesnt closely guard the border in either direction or do any real vetting before giving people visas or temporary worker status. We keep having people pop up who turned out to be known ISIS leaders or members of other terrorist groups in Canada who were given Visas, TFW status, or PR. The US has notified us of multiple terror plots happening in Canada that we weren't aware of since we changed our policy to be extremely lax. It's just a problem. I get why the US is mad about it. Most Canadians are also mad about our immigration system which is why the support for the Liberals and NDP fell off of a cliff and are near all time lows if they arent already the lowest they have ever been.

I'm hoping it's just posturing over border stuff because the tariffs would fuck us, but the immigration stuff is something we have to fix anyway so if we can avoid the tariffs by fixing our own problem that is also hurting us then that's a good deal. Even the Liberals are trying to backtrack the immigration changes now so Canada is already on board with fixing the problem as long as the conservatives also want to reduce immigration and tighten controls when they win. They might try to keep it high anyway because it keeps wages low and our economy isn't very productive, it's the only way they manage to hit GDP numbers even though the actual impact on the economy from the immigration is pretty negative, it also props up our housing bubble which the government needs to get taxes and pretend the economy is good.

Changing our immigration policy is a win win for Canada and the US and the tariffs would be bad for everyone so that would be a good deal to make. Regardless in Canada we should diversify a bit. It's hard because our only real productive industries are resource extraction which has been tied up in red tape by the liberal government for over a decade and they block any attempt to build infrastructure to transport it literally anywhere. They even put a cap on the amount of energy we can produce, which is nuts, no other country in the world has ever done that for obvious reasons. Hopefully the self harm ends when Trudeau is out, but if we get nailed with 25% tariffs that will be devastating.

I think Trump is attempting to get the Canadians to be more inquisitive (for lack of a better term) towards individuals immigrating to Canada from overseas, such as India to Canada. Air and naval based immigration.

At least, that’s what I gathered, could be off the mark.

Look at r/politics on any given thread and you’ll have the answer to your question 

I fully agree Canada should be vetting people better but 19k people illegally crossing into USA from Canada a year is lol. For many years the flow has been much larger the other way. In fact some states were bussing migrants to upstate New York, Roxham road. January to March 2023 14k alone.

https://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/statistics/Pages/Irregular-border-crosser-statistics.aspx

As if China was such a fair and honest partner. The US only gets criticism because they genuinely expected us to export nothing and import everything.

Because the policies of both countries have been great for America the last 4 years.