TORONTO — “Tough” budget decisions, public service adjustments, incoming aid for sectors hardest hit by U.S. tariffs and the latest on ongoing trade negotiations with President Donald Trump were all on the menu for the federal Liberal cabinet meeting this week.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet met on Thursday for the second day of a two-day retreat at a hotel in the Toronto neighbourhood of North York.

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Media were permitted to be at the hotel, but ministers and their staff were kept far from reporters’ eyes and ears. The only leaks came from parts of the hotel ceiling during particularly hard rain Thursday morning, rather than from government sources with information to share.

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