Manitoba to match federal agricultural support funding as U.S. tariffs announced

Arturo Chang · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 02, 2025 4:30 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

The Manitoba authorities has announced further supports for the province's agriculture assemblage up of the expected announcement of caller tariffs from the U.S.

Premier Wab Kinew announced Wednesday the state volition supply $10.7 cardinal successful matching funds for the national AgriStability program, which helps producers affected by ample declines successful income.

The national authorities expanded the program late past month, expanding the compensation complaint for 2025 portion doubling the headdress for payoffs to $6 million.

The announcement comes the aforesaid time U.S. President Donald Trump announced new planetary tariffs the the U.S. authorities says will instrumentality effect immediately.

Kinew says the tariffs volition prop up the cultivation manufacture amid the trade warfare with the U.S. and Chinese tariffs connected Canadian agriculture products.

"These are ways we tin support our economy," the premier said. "We tin insulate against the daze of tariffs and springiness our system clip to adjust.

"If we person to physique the Canadian market, if we person to look astatine different markets overseas, these investments we marque arsenic a authorities [are] going to springiness america time."

The caller funding is connected apical of the $100 cardinal the state acceptable speech for the agriculture manufacture arsenic portion of the 2025 budget's $500-million tariff effect contingency, arsenic good as $140.8 cardinal for concern hazard absorption programming.

"Best-case scenario, we don't person to walk immoderate of it, and we tin usage that wealth for workforce improvement and accessing planetary market," Kinew said. "But if things proceed to get much intense … we'll beryllium determination to support the Manitoba economy."