‘A number of premiers spoke out strongly in favour of a robust Canadian response’
Canada is preparing retaliatory tariffs in response to U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s threat to levy a 25 per cent import tax on all Canadian goods, and Ontario Premier Doug Ford threatened to withhold the province’s energy, which it exports to five states.
Ford told reporters in Toronto on Wednesday that the federal government is preparing retaliatory tariffs. Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc said the government shared details of its border plan with the premiers, who offered to contribute provincial resources to the effort. Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai said in an interview he “personally was very impressed by what Canada put on the table in a response to border security and the illicit trade of fentanyl.”During Trump’s first administration, he used his national security powers to impose a 25 per cent tariff on steel and a 10 per cent tariff on aluminum imports.
Lawmakers are days away from starting an extended winter holiday break, but when MPs return to Parliament in January, it will be after the presidential inauguration — making Trump’s social media taunts and threats all the more serious.
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