Canada steels itself to respond to Trump’s sweeping 'reciprocal' tariffs

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.

Windsor preparing for ‘catastrophic’ scenario

Hello again from Windsor, Ont., wherever this greeting I interviewed Mayor Drew Dilkens unrecorded connected CBC News Network.

Dilkens talked astir however the metropolis is bracing for interaction and with thousands and thousands of jobs astatine stake, he's disquieted astir however hard his metropolis could beryllium hit.

"It could beryllium catastrophic," said Dilkens. And the economical fallout volition agelong acold beyond Windsor, helium noted. "It would ripple each the mode done Ontario. It would ripple each the mode done Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky."

"I'm acrophobic astir the occupation nonaccomplishment successful my community, but I'm besides reassured by the information that if it hits my community, it's going to deed the United States and that's wherever the president is going to consciousness the economical pain," said Dilkens, who precocious travelled to Washington, D.C., for meetings with different Canadian and American mayors.

Dilkens said he's inactive hoping that Trump won't travel done connected imposing tariffs connected Canada, but if helium does, astatine slightest determination volition yet beryllium immoderate clarity connected what they look like.

The uncertainty has been causing vexation and anxiousness for radical successful Windsor, said Dilkens. Once Trump yet announces his tariff plan, past Windsor tin program its effect accordingly, helium added.

How volition Canada retaliate today?

I’m a elder shaper with the Parliamentary bureau’s integer squad successful Ottawa.

Our workfellow Louis Blouin, Radio-Canada’s Parliamentary bureau chief, has immoderate accusation astir what sorts of measures we could spot from the Canadian authorities contiguous aft Trump’s tariff announcement.

According to 2 national sources, the national authorities doesn’t privation to enforce counter-tariffs that would harm Canada’s manufacturing sector.

There is besides a accidental that Canada volition people U.S. nutrient products with counter-tariffs, though it’s unlikely, the sources said. That volition beryllium decided astatine tonight’s gathering of the furniture committee connected Canada-U.S. relations.

Louis is besides proceeding that a telephone telephone betwixt Carney and Trump isn’t connected the radar today. That tracks with what Carney said aft his archetypal telephone with Trump, erstwhile helium said they agreed to beryllium down aft the national predetermination (if Carney wins) and, successful the meantime, furniture members would enactment successful interaction with their U.S. counterparts.

Conservatives volition usage escaped commercialized gross to money military

Pierre Poilievre is successful Toronto, outlining a program to tackle U.S. threats, renegotiate escaped commercialized and fortify the military.

The Conservative person is promising to accelerate a renegotiation of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). His program includes finalizing a caller deal, and directing each revenues from a caller statement to money Canada’s subject and grow its beingness successful the North. He’s besides pledging a money to assistance workers impacted by U.S. tariffs.

A woody negotiated by a Conservative authorities would besides spot Canada recommit to its NATO targets, “not to delight Trump,” but due to the fact that it’s “necessary” successful bid to beryllium a beardown and sovereign country, added Poilievre.

The billion-dollar question remains: “How tin we spot that he’ll honour a caller statement when, let’s beryllium honest, helium violated the past one?” asked the Conservative person of Trump.

Invoking the Serenity Prayer, Poilievre said that Canada can’t power the U.S. president, but it tin power its ain destiny. He said a Conservative authorities would measurement up its commitments to commercialized partners and usage that arsenic leverage going forward.

“We volition clasp up our extremity of the bargain lone arsenic agelong arsenic helium holds up his,” helium said.

The rubber hits the roadworthy successful Nova Scotia

Hi, I’m a writer who covers the Maritimes and reports unrecorded connected CBC News Network.

Here successful Nova Scotia — and elsewhere successful Canada — astir radical don’t cognize that this province’s apical export to the United States isn’t food oregon lobster. It’s rubber tires.

Michelin has owned tyre factories present for much than 50 years. The 3 plants present successful cognition employment astir 4,000 workers, which successful crook enactment thousands of different jobs. Last year, astir $1.5 cardinal worthy of tires were shipped from Nova Scotia to the United States. That surpassed the $1.2 cardinal of seafood exports.

Provincial officials volition beryllium watching today’s tariff announcement closely, to spot however it could interaction this cornerstone of Nova Scotia’s economy.

Conservatives driblet 3 candidates successful a day

Lourence Singh, who was moving successful B.C.’s New Westminster-Burnaby-Maillardville riding, dropped retired of the contention yesterday, making him the 3rd Conservative campaigner to exit successful a azygous day.

The enactment didn’t accidental wherefore Singh was dropped. The others are Mark McKenzie from Ontario’s Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore riding, and Stefan Marquis, who was moving successful Montreal’s Laurier-Sainte-Marie riding.

McKenzie was booted from the contention implicit past comments wherever helium expressed enactment for nationalist hangings, with a enactment spokesperson calling the remarks “unacceptable.”

Marquis was dropped aft it was unearthed that helium shared conspiracy theories connected societal media connected subjects related to COVID-19, vaccines, the World Economic Forum and the warfare successful Ukraine.

Poilievre is speaking present successful Toronto, and we’re waiting to spot if helium comments connected these candidates.

Auto workers acceptable to combat for their jobs

Hi determination from Windsor, Ont., the car superior of Canada, wherever I'll beryllium reporting contiguous connected CBC News Network. This metropolis is bracing for the interaction of the U.S. tariffs, and autoworkers are preparing to support their jobs.

I met yesterday with Chad Lawton, a Ford works idiosyncratic and a national typical with Unifor. His 2 sons and woman enactment determination too, and his wife’s household tin hint their transportation to the institution each the mode backmost to 1904, its precise opening successful Canada.

"My sons are fifth-generation. There's been idiosyncratic successful my household astatine Ford centrifugal institution for 120 years. It's going to enactment that way," Lawton told me.

Lawton said determination is simply a batch of fearfulness and anxiousness among autoworkers close now. Older workers are disquieted astir their retirement; younger workers are disquieted astir their aboriginal and whether they volition person 1 successful the car sector.

Despite the stress, Lawton said they're acceptable to combat to support their jobs connected this broadside of the border.

"At the extremity of the day, they volition thrust a motortruck implicit my cold, dormant assemblage earlier they instrumentality 1 portion retired of my plant," said Lawton.

‘Let’s support Canadian interests — each of them’

D.C. insiders who would typically person an receptor to the crushed are telling Canadian manufacture leaders they aren’t definite what volition hap astatine 4 p.m. ET erstwhile Trump makes his tariffs announcement.

That’s according to Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers'​ Association.

“This is simply a spot of acquisition guesswork,” said Volpe,

He said the duties announced contiguous could see a wide 20 per cent retaliatory tariff, oregon they mightiness people circumstantial countries — and immoderate countries mightiness get disconnected easier than others.

But Volpe stressed that “when those things spell through, radical volition suffer jobs. Regular radical who don’t person a dependable successful Washington oregon successful Ottawa are going to suffer their jobs.”

Volpe and different Canadian manufacture leaders volition conscionable with the premier curate contiguous during a virtual gathering of the Prime Minister’s Council connected Canada-U.S. Relations, scheduled for 3 p.m. ET.

“We usually speech done scenarios,” helium said.

“There is unanimity astatine that table. I deliberation everybody’s [first priority] is let’s support Canadian interests — each of them.”

Mark Carney flew backmost to the nation’s superior aft spending yesterday successful Winnipeg. The Liberal person closed retired his clip successful Manitoba with an evening rally, promising to combat the commercialized warfare but inactive without referencing immoderate details of his plans.

That wasn’t surprising, fixed Carney’s strategy truthful acold has been to support his ideas adjacent to his thorax portion helium waits to spot precisely what the president does this afternoon.

At the rally, though, helium did connote that helium plans to absorption his effect to Trump’s tariffs connected dealing with the argumentation and not the idiosyncratic responsible.

“The archetypal happening successful a situation is you person to separate betwixt what you tin alteration and what you can't. And — I'm not definite this is simply a large penetration — but I'm not definite what we tin alteration with Donald Trump,” helium told the Winnipeg crowd.