Canada election: Ottawa slams brakes on report Honda could shift production to U.S. in response to tariffs

Ottawa says it volition assistance businesses wounded by tariffs

Federal Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne has announced assistance for Canadian businesses affected by the commercialized quality with the U.S., giving them clip to set their proviso chains.

The curate says the authorities intends to supply impermanent six-month tariff alleviation for goods imported from the U.S. that are utilized successful Canadian manufacturing, processing, and nutrient and beverage packaging.

The impermanent exemption volition besides use connected goods utilized to enactment nationalist health, wellness care, nationalist information and nationalist information objectives.

Under the plan, automakers that proceed to manufacture vehicles successful Canada volition besides beryllium allowed to import a definite fig of U.S.-assembled, CUSMA-compliant vehicles into Canada, escaped of the countermeasure tariffs that Canada has imposed (CUSMA is the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement connected trade).

The fig of tariff-free vehicles a institution is permitted to import volition beryllium reduced if determination are reductions successful Canadian accumulation oregon investment.

Poilievre inactive vowing to defund CBC

I’m Cat Tunney, pursuing the Conservatives this week. One of Poilievre’s cornerstone policies starring up the predetermination has been to gut CBC, the English-language nationalist broadcaster. It’s a committedness that often elicits cheers from his supporters astatine rallies and amongst Conservatives whenever they stitchery astatine conventions.

In a run dominated by renewed Canadian patriotism, however, the bombastic person appeared to person taken his ft disconnected the pedal connected the policy, seldom mentioning CBC successful his stump speeches.

During this morning’s announcement successful a Montreal edifice league room, a newsman asked Poilievre a elemental yes oregon nary question: volition you defund the CBC wrong 100 days of forming government?

The abbreviated answer: yes, a Poilievre authorities would defund the CBC (although helium didn’t perpetrate to a timeline). In the aforesaid breath, helium suggested that helium sees a mode for the CBC to survive, but without authorities funding.

“We're going to defund the CBC and fto Canadians bask it arsenic a non-profit, self-funded organization,” Poilievre said.

And a tiny note: CBC has shown up to each quality league helium has had this week but has been unopen retired of asking 1 of the constricted 4 questions.

Honda not moving Canadian accumulation to U.S., manufacture curate says

Industry Minister Anita Anand said this greeting that she has been successful interaction with representatives from Honda and that the institution is not presently considering moving immoderate Canadian accumulation to the U.S.

"We are alert of the unconfirmed reports of aboriginal changes to Honda's accumulation plans for Canada. I americium successful adjacent interaction with the company, and Honda has communicated that nary specified accumulation decisions affecting Canadian operations person been made, and are not being considered astatine this time," Anand said successful a station connected X.

A Japanese paper reported contiguous that the car elephantine was considering shifting immoderate of its Canadian and Mexican operations to the U.S. successful effect to Trump's tariffs.

Anand said she'll beryllium gathering with the CEO of Honda Canada aboriginal today.

If you merchantability cars here, you person to physique here, says Singh

The NDP person was asked what his enactment would suggest to forestall companies from moving accumulation retired of Canada.

Singh, noting that Canada has made large investments successful the car assemblage and related infrastructure, said companies “shouldn’t deliberation that they tin instrumentality those investments retired of our country.”

Canada has a ample and increasing marketplace of consumers, making it a desirable 1 for car companies, and it “could be” required for companies to physique present if they privation to merchantability to Canadians, helium said.

“If you’re going to merchantability a car successful Canada, you person to person a footprint successful Canada, and you person to marque cars oregon you person to person jobs here,” said Singh.

Singh doesn’t accidental erstwhile NDP volition merchandise costed platform

Speaking contiguous successful downtown Montreal, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh didn’t connection a circumstantial day for erstwhile the NDP volition merchandise its afloat costed platform.

Asked if determination is immoderate portion of the authorities that helium would chopped to trim the deficit, Singh said, “absolutely.” He said the favoritism helium makes is that helium would ne'er chopped services that radical need.

“In an economical downturn, you don’t chopped your mode retired of a recession. You marque investments,” helium said.

Instead, Singh said helium would extremity fossil substance subsidies, “a wasteful expenditure,” and criticized Carney for cancelling the Trudeau government’s planned hike to the superior gains tax, saying the NDP wouldn’t enactment a taxation interruption for the wealthy.

The latest Poll Tracker update

Here are the latest nationalist polling developments arsenic summed up by Éric Grenier of TheWrit.ca. He is managing the CBC Poll Tracker passim the campaign.

“The Liberals would beryllium highly apt to triumph the astir seats, and precise apt a bulk government, if an predetermination were held today,” Grenier wrote.

“The Conservatives would signifier a sizable absorption with astir arsenic galore seats arsenic they won successful the past election, portion the Bloc and NDP would spot their spot holdings importantly reduced.”

Poilievre condemns Trump, past pivots to Liberals

“President Trump deserves thing but condemnation for the unfair targeting of Canada,” said Poilievre, pursuing a study retired of Japan that Honda is considering moving immoderate accumulation retired of Canada and Mexico to the U.S. successful effect to Trump’s car tariffs.

Poilievre reiterated a caller talking constituent that “nobody tin control” Trump, and that Canada should absorption connected what it tin power — including reversing Liberal policies that the Conservatives accidental person harmed the country.

“When helium gets asked astir tariffs and however to respond to the Trump administration, helium pivots precise rapidly to speech astir what helium says are the disastrous policies of the Liberal government,” observed CBC’s Janyce McGregor aft watching Poilievre’s property conference.

Poilievre tends to pivot “rather than gathering head-on the question of however you woody with a dialog erstwhile determination is truthful overmuch chaos connected the different side,” McGregor said, adding that it volition beryllium absorbing to spot if there’s a question during the debates astir however each campaigner would attack the negotiating array with Trump.

A Canadian Press newsman pressed Carney connected two-fold disapproval of his program to support workers impacted by tariffs — immoderate of it from labour leaders who accidental helium hasn’t offered enough, and the remainder from fiscal experts who accidental the program volition worsen Canada’s deficit.

The newsman asked however Carney plans to enactment Canadian workers without blowing the budget. Carney reiterated his plans to facilitate entree to employment insurance, connection fiscal enactment to susceptible industries and enactment workers with the up-skilling payment helium announced today.

Carney tried to gully a favoritism betwixt his attack to economical changes versus Poilievre’s approach, saying that the Conservatives volition wage for taxation cuts by cutting services, portion a Liberal authorities would “renew the economy” and absorption connected concern and skill-building for workers.

Carney didn’t stock details connected however helium would execute his program without blowing the budget, alternatively saying that helium has been done the Liberals’ costed level and could vouch for the numbers.

“I cognize however to count,” helium said.

Liberals releasing afloat level by Monday

Ontario premier dismisses Honda report

Doug Ford, speaking astatine Queen’s Park this morning, said the Nikkei study is "not close astatine all.”

He said helium spoke to the president of Honda Canada contiguous and the institution is readying to marque a statement.