A prorogued Parliament and snap provincial election have somehow become the least of Ontario's worries as residents of the province and country at la…
have somehow become the least of Ontario 's worries as residents of the province and country at large look ahead to the potentially devastating tariffs that will be implemented at the U.S. border in just a day's time.
Premier Doug Ford has been one of the most outspoken against President Donald Trump's moves against what has been the U.S.'s "closest friend and treasured ally since 1867," brandishing his now-famousto say he is "so disappointed" in Trump for "walking away from a trading relationship that has for decades made life better for workers on both sides of the border.
At the provincial level, Ford's team has outlined what that response, coming in the form of funding, will look like., includes provincial tax breaks for businesses, special assistance for border areas impacted more severely by the tariffs, an increased LCBO wholesale discount to help bars and restaurants, increases to the Invest Ontario fund and Ontario Made Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit, and more.
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