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Canada is weighing its response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs set to hit the country’s auto sector next week.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is virtually meeting Canadian premiers at noon on Friday where they are expected to discuss retaliatory measures after Trump announced this week 25 per cent tariffs on imports of vehicles and auto parts.Speaking to reporters in Ottawa Thursday, Carney said Canada “will respond forcefully,” adding that “nothing is off the table.”Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday for 25 per cent tariffs on all foreign-made cars, light trucks and auto parts.The auto tariffs that are set to go into effect April 2 — along with an unclear set of global “reciprocal” tariffs — will not apply on U.S.-made parts in foreign-made vehicles, according to the order. Ottawa has not indicated any specifics about what its countermeasures would look like once those tariffs go into effect.
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But Carney, in his role as the caretaker prime minister, promised on Thursday to bring retaliatory measures, reduce internal trade barriers and pivot Canada’s economy away from reliance on the U.S.Carney also said he plans to speak to Trump in “the next day or two” after he said the U.S. president reached out Wednesday evening to schedule a call.
The trade war has become a key campaign focus for all the main federal parties in the general election. Canadians are set to go to the polls on April 28.Carney has had to press pause on his campaign as the Liberal Party leader to focus on Canada’s response to Trump’s trade actions. Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre is campaigning in British Columbia on Friday, while NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is in Toronto.Poilievre has urged Trump to “knock it off” and “stop attacking America’s friends.”Speaking at a campaign stop in Windsor, Ont., on Thursday, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Trump’s tariffs feel like a “betrayal” and “a gut punch,” adding that Canada needs to fight back.
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