Chow releases city's plan to help Toronto handle U.S. tariffs

Sarah Petz · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 17, 2025 12:47 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow has unveiled the city's program to assistance section businesses and workers get done Canada's commercialized warfare with the U.S. 

At a quality league Monday, alongside her "economic enactment team," Chow announced a suite of initiatives that see a taxation deferral programme for concern properties and the motorboat of a "love local" run to promote residents to take Canadian-made goods and services. 

The program besides includes a antecedently announced question to barroom American companies from aboriginal metropolis contracts and prioritize Canadian companies. 

"Working together, Torontonians person tackled hard challenges successful the past," Chow said, pointing to the SARS outbreak of 2003 and the COVID-19 pandemic. 

"Each clip we look stronger," she said. "United, we volition bash it again."

If approved by the mayor's enforcement committee connected Wednesday, Chow said these measures volition relation retired implicit the adjacent 30 days to make a much resilient section economy. " 

The program comes arsenic Canada stares down different circular of U.S. tariffs, which U.S. President Donald Trump is acceptable to denote connected April 2.