US President-elect Donald Trump has suggested that Canada and Mexico become states of the United States. "We subsidize Canada more than $100 billion a year," Trump reportedly said in an interview with NBC. "We subsidize Mexico nearly $300 billion, why should we subsidize these countries? If we're going to subsidize them, let them (and us) be one country." On November 25, Trump threatened to impose a 25 percent tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico, the report said. According to a report on the website of the Wall Street Journal on December 10, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on the 10th that if Trump follows through on his promise to impose a 25% tariff on goods imported from Canada, Ottawa will also take tariff measures to respond. Trudeau said at an event: "Of course we will respond to unfair tariffs in many ways as we did eight years ago, and we are still working on the appropriate way to respond." The Canadian leader said there were signs that Americans were "starting to realize that tariffs on all goods imported from Canada will significantly increase the cost of living for Americans". (reference news)