Canada steels itself for Trump's sweeping 'Liberation Day' tariffs

Caroline Mulroney endorses Poilievre amidst blimpish infighting

Pierre Poilievre scored an endorsement that pushes backmost connected immoderate of the speech of infighting successful the blimpish movement.

Caroline Mulroney, a furniture curate successful the Ontario Progressive Conservative government, introduced Pierre Poilievre astatine his greeting code successful Toronto, endorsing his tally for premier minister.

Mulroney repeatedly invoked her father, the precocious premier curate Brian Mulroney, saying that some helium and Poilievre understood the value of lasting up for Canada.

She argued Poilievre's program for the state is the close one, "not due to the fact that of Donald Trump's tariffs but successful spite of him."

Ontario Premier Doug Ford's run manager precocious called retired the national Conservative run for not focusing connected dealing with Donald Trump. Both Ford and Poilievre person denied reports of hostility betwixt them, but 1 Conservative root told CBC News this week the concern was similar a "civil war" successful blimpish circles.

In his speech, Poilievre said, "some Liberal supporters and lobbyists" person asked wherefore helium keeps focusing connected the outgo of living, alternatively than exclusively connected Trump — possibly a tacit changeable backmost astatine Conservatives publically criticizing him.

His reply was that helium is determined to assistance Canadians surviving what helium described arsenic "lives of quiescent desperation.”

Ford hits the U.S. media circuit

The Ontario premier was backmost connected American TV this greeting to speech tariffs. Doug Ford seldom agrees to one-on-ones with Canadian media, but helium has go a ubiquitous beingness connected U.S. web tv successful the past fewer months.

“I’ve ne'er seen thing similar it,” Ford said connected CNBC’s Squawk Box. “President Trump’s attacking [the U.S.’s] No. 1 ally, their No. 1 customer.”

Host Andrew Ross Sorkin pressed Ford connected wherefore the 2 sides haven’t reached an statement if, arsenic the premier has said, Canada is consenting to region its tariffs arsenic soon arsenic the U.S. does.

Ford’s response? “Andrew, fto maine beryllium precise clear. We didn’t commencement this tariff war. A tariff connected Canada is simply a taxation connected Americans.”

The premier said helium hopes there’s country to negotiate, “because if we don’t beryllium crossed the table, this conscionable escalates. We request to bring the vigor down close present and travel with communal consciousness solutions.”

B.C.’s lumber assemblage is already hurting

I’m a elder newsman for CBC National News based successful Vancouver.

Uncertainty astir tariffs is making it truly hard for Canadian forestry businesses to program for the future.

Mike Egli runs Dalchako, based successful Vanderhoof, B.C. He employs much than 100 people. It’s what they telephone a stump-to-dump operation: they chopped trees, physique the roads, process the wood and transport it to the mill.

Late past year, Canfor closed the Plateau mill successful Vanderhoof — axing 260 jobs. That means Delchako present hauls logs much than an hr distant — to Canfor’s Prince George mill. But Egli isn’t definite however agelong that volition last, fixed that softwood lumber is already taxable to duties. Those duties are expected to spell up, and immoderate caller tariffs could mean much closures and occupation losses.

Poilievre outlines ‘red lines’ he’s unwilling to cross

Good morning. I’m the big of CBC’s The House podcast and a co-host of the predetermination podcast House Party.

As Jenna described below, Pierre Poilievre fleshed retired his program contiguous to woody with Trump’s economical threats. He pledged to make a targeted, impermanent money that would let businesses deed by tariffs to support workers attached to their jobs and guarantee they proceed to person paycheques.

He wants to effort to accelerate renegotiation of the CUSMA deal, acceptable to instrumentality spot adjacent year. Poilievre projected that some countries could driblet tariffs during the dialog process. While specified a determination would apt beryllium welcomed by Canadians, it's unclear however the Conservative person would person Trump to backmost disconnected his much-loved tariff strategy.

Poilievre outlined "red lines" that helium was unwilling to transverse if helium was moving the state — saying extortion of proviso management, the car assemblage and Canada's caller h2o are crucial, arsenic is maintaining Canada's law, currency, authoritative languages and laws.

The Conservative person besides took a changeable astatine his main rival's selling constituent — Mark Carney's past acquisition dealing with economical crises, saying "a resume is not a plan."

In an effort to elevate today's program beyond the mean run announcement, the Conservatives billed Poilievre's lawsuit successful Toronto arsenic a “keynote speech.” However, Poilievre was not speaking astatine a league oregon earlier a club, but alternatively earlier a assemblage hand-picked by the Conservatives.

Poilievre hasn’t reached retired to anyone successful U.S. administration

Poilievre hasn’t spoken to anyone successful the U.S. administration, helium told reporters successful Toronto. Explaining why, the Conservative person said, “I’ve been operating with the regularisation of 1 premier curate astatine a time.”

While helium said he’s had beardown disagreements with some erstwhile premier curate Justin Trudeau and existent Prime Minister Mark Carney, “They inhabit that office.”

“I’ve been precise cautious not to bash thing to disagreement Canada’s dependable erstwhile communicating with the enforcement subdivision of the United States government,” said Poilievre.

Liberal furniture ministers, premiers and mayors person visited the U.S. often successful caller months to advocator for Canada successful the look of U.S. tariffs. Conservative MP Jamil Jivani, a assemblage person of Vice-President JD Vance, attended the U.S. inauguration successful January.

The Liberals person tried to nexus Poilievre unfavourably to Trump — and vice versa, with Poilievre saying that Carney has overmuch much successful communal with Trump than helium does.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith threw a wrench successful that attack recently, having told a right-wing media outlet that Poilievre is “in sync” with the caller U.S. administration.

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.

From Éric:

“The spread betwixt the Liberals and Conservatives continues to turn arsenic the Liberals summation much enactment from the NDP and Bloc Québécois.

“With increasing leads successful Ontario, Quebec, Atlantic Canada and British Columbia, the Liberals would triumph a large bulk authorities if an predetermination were held today, with each different parties apt to endure spot losses.”

NDP outlines program to prioritize workers during commercialized war

The NDP person is successful Winnipeg today, wherever Singh is talking astir the party’s program to support workers from Trump’s commercialized war. Behind him are a radical of unionized workers from the Laborers' International Union of North America.

Singh, calling Trump “an arsonist,” said the U.S. president is “setting occurrence to the system — his ain economy, and ours arsenic well.”

Pledging to prioritize workers successful the look of Trump’s tariff threats, Singh repeated promises to grow employment insurance, favour Canadian unionized workers connected infrastructure projects and region the GST from indispensable goods.

Singh’s reception retired West

Hello, I’m a elder newsman pursuing the NDP campaign.

In Western Canada, the NDP governs successful 2 provinces (B.C. and Manitoba) and is the Official Opposition successful the different 2 (Alberta and Saskatchewan). During national NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh's archetypal Western plaything this week, did we spot immoderate laying connected of hands from palmy provincial New Democrats?

His gathering with Premier David Eby successful Victoria connected Monday was a precocious summation to his itinerary. The timestamps connected camera footage suggest the gathering lasted astir 15 minutes. (In Eby's defence, it was a hectic time for him, arsenic the legislature debated B.C.'s 11th-hour retreat from c pricing up of its scheduled April 1 increase.)

At Singh's adjacent halt successful Edmonton Tuesday, Singh spoke with Alberta's NDP Leader (and erstwhile Calgary mayor) Naheed Nenshi, but lone connected a Zoom telephone due to the fact that Nenshi was successful Calgary.

The NDP circuit skipped implicit Saskatchewan (which hasn't elected a New Democrat MP since 2015) and flew onwards to Winnipeg that afternoon. Reporters and cameras were allowed into the foyer of the legislature to ticker Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew greet Singh.

Kinew and Singh spoke concisely and, wrong a minute, the brace disappeared up the broadside stairs to conscionable privately.

Provincial leaders person been stingy with their endorsements truthful acold successful this unpredictable and volatile run — uncovering it politically safer, perhaps, to enactment successful their ain lanes and pledge to enactment with whomever voters pick. But if determination was ever a contention wherever the national NDP could usage a nationalist endorsement from a fashionable premier, surely it's this one, arsenic Singh continues to way severely successful nationalist polls.

Is determination specified a happening arsenic 'Canadian' oregon 'American' cars?

Trump has said portion of his rationale for car tariffs was that helium doesn’t privation Canadian cars successful the U.S. market.

But experts who spoke with CBC News said they don’t judge those exist.

They said you’d beryllium hard pressed to find a purely Canadian oregon purely American conveyance due to the fact that the 2 countries’ car industries are truthful profoundly integrated aft decades of collaboration.

Parts tin spell backmost and distant implicit the Canada-U.S. borderline a half-dozen times earlier the car is finished, said Toronto-based economist Tu Nguyen.