'No bottles being popped' as Manitoba grapples with impacts of tariffs, premier says

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 03, 2025 4:20 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

A time aft Canada was mostly spared successful U.S. President Donald Trump's long-feared program to enforce wide tariffs connected imports from dozens of countries, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew said determination are inactive "no bottles being popped today," arsenic the state comes to presumption with however it volition beryllium affected by industry-specific tariffs that are being imposed.

That includes alloy manufacturers similar the Gerdau alloy mill successful Selkirk, which volition proceed to beryllium affected by existing tariffs connected alloy and aluminum, and manufacturers who marque products not covered by the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, oregon CUSMA.

That's successful summation to abstracted tariffs from China connected pork and canola exports, which the premier said person unneurotic enactment Manitoba successful the presumption of "facing a commercialized warfare connected 2 fronts" — thing helium said helium raised with Prime Minister Mark Carney during a Thursday speech with him and the different premiers.

"It's going to instrumentality months for america to navigate what the existent impacts are connected our producers, our manufacturers, the radical who spell to enactment successful these jobs each time successful our economy," Kinew told reporters astatine a quality league successful his bureau Thursday afternoon.

"That's wherefore I'm saying that we're not breaking retired the champagne, oregon we're not doing immoderate fist pumps today, due to the fact that determination are inactive precise existent threats to our Manitoba system and precise existent impacts that we're facing."

Kinew said those factors, on with the interaction connected the broader Canadian system from Trump's precocious introduced car tariffs and the ongoing wide changes to planetary trade, are each going to "hit america present successful Manitoba successful assorted ways."

"We're conscionable going to person to spot however it plays out," helium said.

He said helium besides spoke with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre astir the latest tariff update, successful the involvement of fairness to Manitoba's Conservative voters.

Kinew was among the latest Canadian premiers to marque nationalist remarks astir the tariff update.

Earlier Thursday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford called it "positive" that Canada was not connected the database of countries that volition look the caller "reciprocal" tariffs announced connected Wednesday by Trump, saying helium thinks the narration betwixt Canada and the U.S. has made a difference.

Quebec Premier François Legault said adjacent though Canada was mostly spared successful Trump's tariffs announcement, helium remained concerned, peculiarly fixed the car tariffs successful place. Legault said Quebec and Canadian values align much with Europe than with the U.S.

British Columbia Premier David Eby said he's gladsome to spot a displacement successful however Trump is talking astir Canada and hopes it means "some stableness and yet grounds to beryllium down similar adults and travel to an statement astir however our 2 countries tin travel together."

However, helium cautioned the president could marque a station connected Truth Social and propulsion everything into question astatine immoderate time.