The premier of Canada’s largest province wants the country to negotiate its own trade agreement with the US, unless Mexico aligns itself with its North American partners on Chinese imports.
After catching us up on the news of the week in The Briefs, Amanda Lang speaks with Beth Burke, CEO of the Canadian American Business Council for a look of the state of the economic relationship between Canada and the U.S. headed into a second Trump presidency.
In a post on X, the premier called Mexico “a backdoor” for Chinese goods into Canada and US. “We must prioritize the closest economic partnership on earth by directly negotiating a bilateral US-Canada free trade agreement that puts US and Canadian workers first,” he said. In August, Canada announced it would implement a 100% tariff on electric cars and a 25% levy on steel and aluminum from China, broadly in line with levels proposed by the Biden administration. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has also opened consultations on potential tariffs against other Chinese-made goods, including batteries, battery parts and semiconductors.
At a press conference Tuesday, Ford said he would welcome a separate bilateral trade deal between Mexico and Canada, but stressed that he believed Mexican goods were undercutting Canadian ones.
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