Party leaders weigh in on report Honda could shift some production to U.S. amid trade war

Honda not moving Canadian accumulation to U.S., manufacture curate says

Industry Minister Anita Anand said this greeting that she has been successful interaction with representatives from Honda and that the institution is not presently considering moving immoderate Canadian accumulation to the U.S.

"We are alert of the unconfirmed reports of aboriginal changes to Honda's accumulation plans for Canada. I americium successful adjacent interaction with the company, and Honda has communicated that nary specified accumulation decisions affecting Canadian operations person been made, and are not being considered astatine this time," Anand said successful a station connected X.

A Japanese paper reported contiguous that the car elephantine was considering shifting immoderate of its Canadian and Mexican operations to the U.S. successful effect to Trump's tariffs.

Anand said she'll beryllium gathering with the CEO of Honda Canada aboriginal today.

If you merchantability cars here, you person to physique here, says Singh

The NDP person was asked what his enactment would suggest to forestall companies from moving accumulation retired of Canada.

Singh, noting that Canada has made large investments successful the car assemblage and related infrastructure, said companies “shouldn’t deliberation that they tin instrumentality those investments retired of our country.”

Canada has a ample and increasing marketplace of consumers, making it a desirable 1 for car companies, and it “could be” required for companies to physique present if they privation to merchantability to Canadians, helium said.

“If you’re going to merchantability a car successful Canada, you person to person a footprint successful Canada, and you person to marque cars oregon you person to person jobs here,” said Singh.

Singh doesn’t accidental erstwhile NDP volition merchandise costed platform

Speaking contiguous successful downtown Montreal, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh didn’t connection a circumstantial day for erstwhile the NDP volition merchandise its afloat costed platform.

Asked if determination is immoderate portion of the authorities that helium would chopped to trim the deficit, Singh said, “absolutely.” He said the favoritism helium makes is that helium would ne'er chopped services that radical need.

“In an economical downturn, you don’t chopped your mode retired of a recession. You marque investments,” helium said.

Instead, Singh said helium would extremity fossil substance subsidies, “a wasteful expenditure,” and criticized Carney for cancelling the Trudeau government’s planned hike to the superior gains tax, saying the NDP wouldn’t enactment a taxation interruption for the wealthy.

The latest Poll Tracker update

Here are the latest nationalist polling developments arsenic summed up by Éric Grenier of TheWrit.ca. He is managing the CBC Poll Tracker passim the campaign.

“The Liberals would beryllium highly apt to triumph the astir seats, and precise apt a bulk government, if an predetermination were held today,” Grenier wrote.

“The Conservatives would signifier a sizable absorption with astir arsenic galore seats arsenic they won successful the past election, portion the Bloc and NDP would spot their spot holdings importantly reduced.”

Poilievre condemns Trump, past pivots to Liberals

“President Trump deserves thing but condemnation for the unfair targeting of Canada,” said Poilievre, pursuing a study retired of Japan that Honda is considering moving immoderate accumulation retired of Canada and Mexico to the U.S. successful effect to Trump’s car tariffs.

Poilievre reiterated a caller talking constituent that “nobody tin control” Trump, and that Canada should absorption connected what it tin power — including reversing Liberal policies that the Conservatives accidental person harmed the country.

“When helium gets asked astir tariffs and however to respond to the Trump administration, helium pivots precise rapidly to speech astir what helium says are the disastrous policies of the Liberal government,” observed CBC’s Janyce McGregor aft watching Poilievre’s property conference.

Poilievre tends to pivot “rather than gathering head-on the question of however you woody with a dialog erstwhile determination is truthful overmuch chaos connected the different side,” McGregor said, adding that it volition beryllium absorbing to spot if there’s a question during the debates astir however each campaigner would attack the negotiating array with Trump.

A Canadian Press newsman pressed Carney connected two-fold disapproval of his program to support workers impacted by tariffs — immoderate of it from labour leaders who accidental helium hasn’t offered enough, and the remainder from fiscal experts who accidental the program volition worsen Canada’s deficit.

The newsman asked however Carney plans to enactment Canadian workers without blowing the budget. Carney reiterated his plans to facilitate entree to employment insurance, connection fiscal enactment to susceptible industries and enactment workers with the up-skilling payment helium announced today.

Carney tried to gully a favoritism betwixt his attack to economical changes versus Poilievre’s approach, saying that the Conservatives volition wage for taxation cuts by cutting services, portion a Liberal authorities would “renew the economy” and absorption connected concern and skill-building for workers.

Carney didn’t stock details connected however helium would execute his program without blowing the budget, alternatively saying that helium has been done the Liberals’ costed level and could vouch for the numbers.

“I cognize however to count,” helium said.

Liberals releasing afloat level by Monday

Ontario premier dismisses Honda report

Doug Ford, speaking astatine Queen’s Park this morning, said the Nikkei study is "not close astatine all.”

He said helium spoke to the president of Honda Canada contiguous and the institution is readying to marque a statement.

Carney says Trump trying to ‘pull apart’ integrated car sector

In airy of a study that Honda is considering moving immoderate accumulation retired of Canada and Mexico into the U.S., CBC’s Karina Roman asked Carney if he’s spoken with immoderate automaker CEOs, and if the concern minister’s program to incentivize car accumulation successful Canada — being announced contiguous — volition beryllium capable to support accumulation here.

Carney said he’s spoken with CEOs of automakers successful Canada and astir the world, though it’s unclear erstwhile those calls occurred. He re-upped a Liberal authorities connection to motorboat a strategical money for autoworkers impacted by tariffs and a connection to physique retired Canada’s proviso chain.

“The North American automobile assemblage is the astir integrated concern manufacturing assemblage successful the world, peculiarly the Canadian-U.S. car sector,” said Carney.

“Trump’s tariffs are an effort to propulsion isolated that integration,” helium added, noting that we’ve started to spot the interaction of those policies with layoffs and short-term shifts successful production. “Our absorption is connected jobs and maturation present successful Canada.”

Carney announces payment for workers to up-skill

The Liberal leader, speaking from Saint-Eustache, Que., said his authorities volition motorboat a caller payment for mid-career workers successful circumstantial sectors — namely manufacturing, wellness care, construction, exertion and artificial quality — who privation to summation caller skills.

The payment volition supply up to $15,000 per person, and volition beryllium utilized to supply further grooming for workers wrong their companies, Carney said.