Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s foreign minister, said  Ottawa will slap tariffs on $12.6 billion of U.S. exports starting tomorrow.

“We will not escalate, and we will not back down,” Freeland said.

Freeland said she spoke six times this week to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer about how to resolve the dispute over the impending tariffs that will hit a wide range of U.S. products.

She said she remains confident that “common sense will prevail.”

Freeland called the U.S. tariffs being imposed for national security reasons as “not only absurd, it’s hurtful.”

In March, Trump announced tariffs of 25 percent steel imports and 10 percent on aluminium over national security concerns. He had exempted allies such as Canada and the European Union while talks continued with the leaders of those nations about a permanent waiver.

“Canada has no choice but to retaliate with a measured, perfectly reciprocal dollar-for-dollar response,” Freeland said during remarks in Ontario.

But at the end of May, Trump said that Canada and the EU would be swept into the tariffs, setting off a series of tit-for-tat tariffs by close U.S. trading partners.

“The tariffs introduced by the United States on Canadian steel and aluminium are protectionist and illegal under [World Trade Organisation] and [North American Free Trade Agreement] rules, the very rules that the United States helped to write,” Freeland said.

“It is with regret that we take these countermeasures, but the U.S. tariffs leave Canada no choice but to defend our industries, our workers and our communities, and we will remain firm in doing so,” she said.

Canada, which buys more American steel than any other country, said that the U.S. has a $2 billion annual trade surplus in iron and steel products with Canada.

The U.S., Canada and Mexico are expected to restart talks on the NAFTA after Mexico’s presidential elections, which are set for Sunday.

Canadian steel is used in American tanks, and its aluminium goes into U.S. planes.

In 2017, about $14 billion of steel was traded between Canada and the United States.

Combined trade in aluminium between Canada and the U.S. is more than $11.4 billion a year.

The Canadian government also announced that it would make available upward of $2 billion in assistance to its steel and aluminium companies.

That amount includes $50 million over five years to help companies diversify markets and take advantage of EU and Asia-Pacific trade deals.

Canada says it has already taken steps to address any dumping of metals into its market.

A Philippine Provincial City Mayor Antonio Halili, known for parading drug suspects in public has been shot dead.

But Halili also is also alleged to have drug ties himself.

Mayor Halili of Tanauan city in Batangas province south of Manila was shot and killed by yet to be identified attacker on Monday during a flag-raising ceremony in front of horrified employees.

The mayor, however, died while being brought to a hospital, Philippine National Police chief Oscar Albayalde said.

“They did not see anybody approach him. They just heard a gunshot so the assumption or allegation was it could have been a sniper shot,” Albayalde said in a news conference, adding that an investigation was underway.

Dozens of employees and officials scrambled to safety when the gunfire rang out as they were singing the national anthem outside city hall.

The bullet hit a cellphone in Halili’s coat pocket then pierced his chest, police said.

Police were scouring a nearby elevated grassy area, where the gunman may have fired the shot.

Halili became controversial two years ago when he ordered drug suspects to be paraded in public in Tanauan, a small city about 70 kilometers (43 miles) south of Manila, in a campaign that was dubbed “walks of shame.”

The suspects were forced to wear cardboard signs that read “I’m a pusher, don’t emulate me” in a campaign that alarmed human rights officials.

Police officials, however, also linked Halili to illegal drugs, an allegation he strongly denied.

He said at the time that he would resign and would be willing to be publicly paraded as a drug suspect if police could come up with evidence to support the allegation.

Albayalde said investigators would try to determine if the killing was connected to Halili’s anti-drug campaign.

Halili’s unusual campaign drew attention at a time of growing alarm over the rising number of killings of drug suspects under President Rodrigo Duterte.

Since Duterte took office in 2016, more than 4,200 drug suspects had been killed in clashes with police.

Human rights groups have reported much higher death tolls, although Duterte and his officials have questioned the accuracy of those reports.

They said the suspects died because they opened fire and sparked gun battles with authorities although human rights groups have accused police of extrajudicial killings.

Halili’s killing came a few weeks after a Catholic priest was shot and killed while preparing to celebrate Mass in a village chapel in northern Nueva Ecija province.

Sen. Panfilo Lacson, a former national police chief, urged the police to impose stricter firearms control in light of the killings.

“The killing of priests, prosecutors, and former and incumbent local officials in broad daylight and in full view of the public may be suggestive of the impunity and brazenness of those responsible for such acts,” Lacson said.

“The Philippine National Police should feel challenged, if not taunted,” he said.

“And they must immediately consider stricter firearms control strategies before similar killings could reach ubiquitous levels.”

“Prices too high! He has agreed!”

Trump has repeatedly lashed out at OPEC on Twitter in recent months, piling pressure on Riyadh, a major ally, to boost output as he hopes for lower pump prices before midterm congressional elections in November.

His latest comments come a week after ministers from the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries — of which Saudi Arabia is a major member — had already agreed to raise output from July.

Non-OPEC member Russia on June 23 also backed the effort, capping a week of tense diplomacy for the grouping that averted a damaging rift between arch foes Iran and Saudi Arabia.

The ministers announced they would ramp up oil production by around one million barrels a day from July.

“I think it will contribute significantly to meet the extra demand that we see coming in the second half,” Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Faleh told reporters at the time.

The talks had centred on whether to amend an 18-month-old supply-cut deal between OPEC members and allied countries, including Russia, that has cleared a global oil glut and lifted crude prices.

Saudi Arabia, backed by non-member Russia, had argued strongly in favor of increasing production as grumbles in major consumer countries like the United States, India and China have grown about high prices.

Iran opposed any changes to the original production-cut deal at a time when its oil industry is facing renewed sanctions over Trump’s decision to quit the international nuclear deal with Tehran.

In the end, both sides were able to save face.

The current production curb pact calls for participating countries to trim output by 1.8 million barrels a day.

But production constraints and geopolitical factors have seen several nations exceed their restriction quotas, keeping about 2.8 million barrels off the market, according to OPEC.

By agreeing to collectively raise output by a million barrels, member countries are simply committing to comply fully with the deal struck in late 2016.

Iran has accused Trump of trying to politicize OPEC and said it was US sanctions on Iran and Venezuela that had helped push up prices.

Saudi Arabia was producing more than 9.9 million barrels a day in May, according to OPEC, citing secondary sources.