Canada election: Tariff-stricken auto industry dominates campaign as Honda disputes relocation rumour

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‘The aboriginal is unknown,’ car store manager says

I’m Joseph Ryan, a newsman successful Toronto speaking with car store workers successful adjacent Mississauga, Ont.

Sal Spano, a wide manager astatine Johnston and Magwood Tires & Auto, 1 of the oldest tyre shops successful the area, says helium hopes leaders volition support costs low.

“I’ve had radical travel successful who broke down,” helium said astir customers who spot higher bills erstwhile coming successful to alteration tires and hole their cars astatine his shop.

He says everyone is present cutting corners, and this store that was founded soon aft the Second World War mightiness autumn unfortunate to the volatile car manufacture that is seeing threats and changes each day.

“The aboriginal is unknown,” helium said.

Retiring Conservative MP endorses autarkic candidate

Hello, I'm Courtney Dickson, a writer successful Vancouver.

Longtime Conservative MP Ed Fast isn’t moving successful this election. And present he’s taken the uncommon measurement of endorsing the autarkic campaigner who initially looked acceptable to regenerate him nether the Conservative banner.

Fast, who has represented the riding of Abbotsford successful B.C. since 2006, announced past twelvemonth helium would beryllium retiring from national politics. Mike de Jong, who served arsenic a provincial MLA and furniture curate for the B.C. Liberals for much than 30 years, said he'd beryllium seeking the Conservative information — but was unexpectedly rejected by the enactment arsenic campaigner for the recently created Abbotsford-South Langley riding.

Fast described the Conservative party's determination arsenic "profoundly dishonest."

"The mode the enactment backroom operators acted to bargain ideology from the bully radical of Abbotsford and Langley is unconscionable," helium told CBC's The Early Edition big Stephen Quinn Tuesday morning.

Fast said helium inactive supports the predetermination of a Conservative government, but does not enactment the campaigner chosen to win him: Sukhman Singh Gill, a 25-year-old Langley businessman.

De Jong said he's honoured to person Fast's endorsement. “If the radical of Abbotsford–South Langley prime maine to win him arsenic their MP, I volition bash my precise champion to honour the bequest of integrity and principled nationalist work helium leaves,” helium said successful a property release.

For Habs’s sake: Blanchet asked French statement organizers to reschedule

Yves-François Blanchet confirmed during an day lawsuit successful Montreal that helium made the petition earlier today, but said helium hasn’t heard backmost yet.

The Bloc person said during a abstracted lawsuit this greeting that helium would earnestly deliberation astir calling the Leaders’ Debates Commission to inquire them to determination the debate, aft a Radio-Canada newsman recalled that erstwhile Bloc person Gilles Duceppe did the aforesaid happening — successfully — successful 2011.

The NDP besides called for the statement to beryllium rescheduled successful a property merchandise earlier this afternoon.

Trump hasn't shifted connected 51st authorities stance, says U.S. property secretary

Hey everyone, I'll beryllium moving connected your unrecorded updates this afternoon. Over successful Washington, my workfellow Katie Simpson asked White House property caput Karoline Leavitt whether Donald Trump was considering offering alleviation connected existent car tariffs oregon the further tariffs connected car parts coming successful May.

Leavitt said she had nary quality connected changes to auto-related tariffs, but that the U.S. president "has flexibility erstwhile it comes to negotiations and talks." Ultimately, though, "his extremity … is to enactment the American idiosyncratic first," she said.

Katie besides asked Leavitt what is down the U.S. president's evident displacement successful code connected Canadian sovereignty successful caller weeks.

Leavitt rejected that Trump’s presumption has shifted, adding it mightiness conscionable beryllium due to the fact that helium doesn't get asked astir it often by reporters successful the Oval Office.

"The United States has been subsidizing Canada's nationalist defence and helium believes that Canadians would payment greatly from becoming the 51st authorities of the United States of America,” said Leavitt.

Trump has said Canada does not lend capable of its GDP towards defence spending, relying alternatively connected U.S. subject power. Canada has pledged to conscionable NATO's two-per-cent GDP people by 2032.

Indigenous voters privation a ‘voice astatine the table’

Hi, I study unrecorded from crossed Ontario for CBC News Network. Today I’m connected Manitoulin Island, and much specifically, successful the M'Chigeeng First Nation. I'm astatine Kenjgewin Teg, a post-secondary instauration that is hosting an on-campus voting tract tally by Elections Canada.

Sandra Dewing is simply a welding pupil present and plans connected casting a ballot. "We are fortunate to unrecorded successful a antiauthoritarian society," she said. "If you don't vote, you don't person a close to complain."

Dewing, who is grooming for a 2nd career, said she'd similar to perceive much commitments from candidates for accrued intelligence wellness services for young radical successful her community.

Adolphus Trudeau, a retired firefighter and erstwhile section councillor, is besides studying welding.

"What's dense connected my caput is First Nations issues. We've got to person that dependable astatine the table," helium said.

Trudeau, and others I spoke to today, said their voices are not being heard successful this run truthful far.

The schoolhouse is hosting a candidates gathering time and Beverley Roy, president of Kenjgewin Teg, plans to inquire candidates astir their plans for Indigenous acquisition and rights. She said she hasn't heard capable astir those issues during the campaign.

"That's portion of the pugnacious questions I'm going to beryllium asking tomorrow. I privation to perceive what their positions are," she said.

Indigenous voices, and their votes, should not beryllium ignored, said Roy. "Indigenous radical tin marque a quality successful these types of elections, particularly successful our riding."

Ontario works volition run ‘at afloat capacity’ with nary changes, says Honda

After a Japanese paper reported that Honda was considering moving immoderate of its accumulation retired of Canada and Mexico and into the U.S., a spokesperson for the automaker’s Canadian subdivision has shared a statement.

“This was not an announcement by Honda and we cannot remark connected the specifics of this morning's headlines,” the spokesperson said.

“However, we tin corroborate that our Canadian manufacturing installation successful Alliston, Ont., volition run astatine afloat capableness for the foreseeable aboriginal and nary changes are being considered astatine this time.”

The spokesperson said the institution perpetually studies its options to woody with unforeseen events truthful that it tin “mitigate antagonistic impacts connected our business.”

The NDP conscionable released a connection calling connected organizers to reschedule the French-language leaders’ statement and debar a struggle with an all-important Habs crippled that could find their playoff chances.

The crippled is astatine 7 p.m. ET time and the statement starts an hr aboriginal — that’s a batch of chirping to watch, and Singh said helium doesn’t privation Canadians to person to choose.

“Hockey is successful our blood,” said Singh. “This scheduling struggle makes the governmental strategy look retired of interaction and is going to person a superior interaction connected who tunes successful to the lone French statement of the campaign.”

As Michael mentioned earlier, the petition isn’t without precedent. But it seems improbable to hap this clip astir with conscionable a time to spell until puck drop.

Hockey and authorities collide for French debate

The French-language leaders’ statement is scheduled for 8 p.m. ET tomorrow, but the Montreal Canadiens’ playoff hopes could beryllium connected the enactment astatine the aforesaid time.

Back successful 2011, the French-language statement was rescheduled to debar a Canadiens-Bruins playoff game. Gilles Duceppe, person of the Bloc Québécois astatine the time, led the charge.

Current Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet was asked astir this contiguous and helium was amazed that Duceppe’s petition successful 2011 was successful.

“I didn’t cognize that,” Blanchet said. “I’ll bespeak connected that, and we’ll telephone the [Leaders’ Debates Commission] and spot what they deliberation of that idea.”

A mates of things to note: Duceppe’s petition happened respective days successful advance, and helium had the enactment of different parties successful his efforts. That’s not the lawsuit this time.

The crippled besides mightiness not matter. If the Columbus Blue Jackets, who are chasing the Habs for that playoff spot, suffer contiguous against Philadelphia, the Habs clinch a playoff spot. Then tomorrow’s crippled becomes acold little important.

Lastly, I person to add: my beloved Ottawa Senators person a crippled Thursday night, successful struggle with the English-language debate. But they clinched a playoff spot past week truthful I don’t person to woody with immoderate of that accent (sorry Habs fans).

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.