Jagmeet Singh announces plan in Winnipeg to protect workers from trade war

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 02, 2025 12:54 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his enactment has a program to safeguard Canada from Donald Trump's commercialized warfare arsenic the U.S. president prepares to rotation retired caller tariffs.

During a run halt successful Winnipeg connected Wednesday, Singh cited previously-announced NDP argumentation proposals similar expanding employment security payments, gathering an east-west energy grid and putting wealth collected done retaliatory tariffs into affected sectors similar alloy and car manufacturing.

Trump is expected to unveil contiguous his latest circular of "reciprocal" tariffs connected countries helium claims person been taking vantage of the U.S.

It's inactive not wide if Trump's intermission connected previously-announced economy-wide tariffs connected Canada and Mexico volition extremity today.

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

Singh has been arguing during the predetermination run that the NDP is the lone enactment looking retired for workers arsenic the commercialized warfare intensifies.

The NDP person is including antecedently announced affordability promises successful his tariff plan, specified arsenic removing the GST connected "essentials" similar location heating, premade market store meals and children's' clothes, capping market prices connected staples and expanding wellness programs similar dental care.