There is no intention of closing off any part of the forest, councillors said.
Canada has promised to implement a set of sweeping new security measures along the border, including strengthened surveillance and adding a joint "strike force" to target transnational organised crime.Trump said on Tuesday he was not considering using military force to make Canada part of the United States, but raised concerns about its neighbour's military spending.
"They have a very small military. They rely on our military. It's all fine, but, you know, they got to pay for that. It's very unfair," he said.Canada has been under pressure to increase its military spending as it continues to fall short of the target set out for Nato members.Its defence budget currently stands at C$27bn ($19.8bn, £15.5bn), though the Trudeau government has promised that it will boost spending to almost C$50bn by 2030.
British Columbia Premier David Eby told a news conference on Tuesday that a number of Canadian provincial premiers will soon be travelling to Washington DC to lobby against the possible tariffs.On Monday, Doug Ford, the leader of Canada's most populous province Ontario, said Trudeau must spend his remaining weeks in office working with the provinces to address Trump's threat.
"The premiers are leading the country right now," he told BBC News in an interview.
Ontario has a deep reliance on trade with the US. The province is at the heart of the highly integrated auto industry in Canada, and trade between Ontario and the US totalled more than C$493bn ($350bn) in 2023."They disregarded that to make some money from drugs.
"It caused utter devastation."For Katherine, finding out her son had been killed because of the illegal activities of a criminal neighbour only worsened her grief.
"It sickens me that it could have been prevented," she says. "You are supposed to trust your neighbours."This is more upsetting for us because someone chose to do that, it was their choice, not ours."