Mayor Olivia Chow has brought together 13 business and labour leaders to help draft a municipal plan to respond to U.S. President Donald Trump's renewed tariff threats. Trump says he intends to impose a 25 per cent tariff on Canadian goods Tuesday.
A 13-member team met at Toronto City Hall Thursday to discuss a municipal response to threatened U.S. tariffs. Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow assembled a team of business and labour leaders from a variety of sectors Thursday to discuss how the city can respond to heavy tariffs the U.S. has threatened to impose next week.
In a post on social media Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump said he will follow through on his plan to implement a 25 per cent tariff on most Canadian goods as of March 4, after pausing his threat for nearly a month.Canadian officials at White House as Trump confirms tariffs going aheadMinisters and Canada's fentanyl czar are in Washington, D.C., to highlight their country's efforts to secure the border and stop drug smuggling. Their efforts come as U.S.
Coun. Shelley Carroll, the city's budget chief and vice-chair of the newly created team, said the city will relay what it's hearing from local industries to keep Ottawa informed. U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported a 97 per cent drop in fentanyl seizures coming from Canada between December and January. Before Canada launched a $1.3-billion border security package in response to Trump's tariff threats, Canada represented less than one per cent of all seized fentanyl imports into the U.S., according to federal data.
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