Senior Canadian cabinet ministers met with US President-elect Donald Trump's team in Florida to discuss tariffs, BTA reported.
The conversation took place at a time when Ottawa is trying to avoid a future economic war with the United States.
New Canadian Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Foreign Minister Melanie Joly met with Howard Lutnick, Trump's nominee for Commerce Secretary, who will directly oversee Washington's trade and tariffs policy.
Trump's nominee for Interior Secretary Doug also participated in the talks, which took place at Trump's Florida estate "Mar-a-Lago". Burgum.
LeBlanc spokesman Jean-Sebastian Comeau, who confirmed the meeting's participants, described the talks as "positive and productive".
Trump has vowed to impose a 25 percent tariff on all Canadian imports when he takes office next month. He said the tariffs will remain in place until Ottawa takes steps to stem the flow of illegal immigrants and the drug fentanyl into the United States.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has vowed to retaliate if Trump follows through on his threat, raising fears of a trade war.
LeBlanc and Joly briefed their counterparts on Canada's "Border Plan" and reaffirmed the shared commitment of both countries to strengthen border security and combat the harms of fentanyl in a way that saves Canadian and American lives," Comeau said.
Canada's "Border Plan" - worth C$1 billion ($694 million) - was drafted by Ottawa in response to Trump's concerns.
Latnick and Burgum "agreed to share the information with President Trump," the statement said.
Trudeau is facing his worst political crisis since he came to power in a landslide election victory in 2015.
LeBlanc was appointed finance minister earlier this month after the previous incumbent, Chrystia Freeland, unexpectedly resigned.
In a scathing letter explaining her reasons for leaving the post, she accused Trudeau of prioritizing handouts to voters to secure votes over preparing Canada for a potential trade war.
More than 75% of Canadian exports go to the United States, and nearly 2 million Canadian jobs depend on bilateral trade with a population of 41 million.
The US president-elect has called on the US Supreme Court to postpone the entry into force of the law that provides for the social network "TikTok" to be banned in the United States, BTA reported.
"The case poses an unprecedented and complex contradiction between the right to free speech, on the one hand, and foreign policy and national security considerations, on the other," the future US leader's request to the court states. "Such a postponement would provide President Trump with an extremely important opportunity to find a political solution that could eliminate the need for the court to rule on such constitutionally significant issues."
The letter explicitly emphasizes that the Republican is not taking any side in the case.
Earlier, the management of "TikTok" also decided to ask the Supreme Court to postpone the law according to which the social network could be banned in the United States.
The platform must be sold or blocked by January 19, 2025, the day before Trump takes office. The managers of the social network and the Chinese parent company of the platform, "ByteDance" (ByteDance), argue that such a measure violates the right of 170 million TikTok users in the United States to free speech.
Trump has said that he has a "warm relationship" with this social network, since the votes of its users among young Americans helped him win the presidential election in November.
According to the US Department of Justice, Chinese control over "TikTok" is a lasting threat to national security, a view supported by most US congressmen.
TikTok insists that the Justice Department is exaggerating the platform's ties to China, adding that its content recommendation software and the user data it collects are stored on cloud servers in the US, and decisions affecting American users of the social network are also made on US territory.