Justin Trudeau fails to win assurances over trade tariffs after talks with Donald Trump

Justin Trudeau briefly speaks to the media as he walks through the lobby of a hotel in Palm Beach, Florida (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau returned home on Saturday after his meeting with Donald Trump without assurances the president-elect will back away from threatened tariffs on all products from the major American trading partner.

Mr Trump called the talks “productive” but signalled no retreat from a pledge that Canada says unfairly lumps it in with Mexico over the flow of drugs and migrants into the United States.