Canada’s outgoing prime minister and the leader of the country’s oil rich province of Alberta are confident Canada can avoid the 25% tariffs President Donald Trump says he will impose on Canada and Mexico on Feb.
Ford says the actual number of Ontario jobs affected by the tariffs will depend on what sectors are targeted, but the ministries have told him it could be between 450,000-500,000.
Canada is prepared to impose retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. if Trump eventually moves ahead with any trade action. Officials have already drawn up a plan that will levy immediate tariffs on $37-billion worth of American goods if Trump moves against Canada.
With only hours to go until U.S. president-elect Donald Trump heads back to the Oval Office, Canadian officials say they still don’t know whether he will follow through on his standing threat to level punishing tariffs on Canadian goods.
Federal Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who met with Mr. Ford on Tuesday, also declined to reveal any estimates. Mr. Ford has repeatedly said Ontario, with its large manufacturing industry ...
Ford, who was wearing a Canada is not for sale baseball hat as he entered the talks, has already said he is prepared to withhold energy exports to the U.S., which could leave some 1.5 million Americans in a bind given how reliant some states are on the province for electricity.
Ontario officials estimate that U.S. president ... afternoon with Finance and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc. The premier has also said he may need to spend tens of billions ...
Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that “nothing is off the table” when it comes to responding to proposed tariffs by U.S.
Ontario Liberal MP Judy Sgro tells Power & Politics that Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc has leadership support from the Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic caucuses. If LeBlanc decides to run, 'I think this race would be over quickly,
Canada's response to the tariff threat will be at the centre of today's first ministers' meeting, which the premiers requested to get a better sense of what Ottawa has planned for the weeks ahead. Most of the 13 premiers will be in the nation's capital, while some will join the conversation virtually.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford, the leader of Canada's most populous ... a joke and are meant to undermine America’s closest ally. “The joke is over,” Dominic LeBlanc, the country’s finance minister and point person for U.S.-Canada relations, said ...
President Donald Trump said Monday that he expects to put 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting on Feb. 1, while declining to flesh out his plans for taxing Chinese imports.