U.S. renews tariff threat as northeastern Ont. federal candidates hit campaign trail

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 02, 2025 6:14 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to renew economical unit connected Canada with the announcement of caller tariffs aboriginal today, conscionable arsenic national candidates crossed northeastern Ontario enactment to mobilize voters up of the April 28 election.

Nipissing-Temiskaming Liberal campaigner Pauline Rochefort says it's each she's proceeding astir arsenic she goes knocking connected doors for support. 

"Everyone is watching oregon listening to the news," she said. "Everyone wants to marque an informed decision." 

She says tariffs are straight tied to concerns astir the outgo of living. 

"People are realizing that the aboriginal is not going to beryllium easy… It's important that we person a unified state truthful that we tin basal up together."

She, similar her Liberal adjacent successful Sudbury East—Manitoulin—Nickel Belt Marc Serré, argues that Mark Carney is champion positioned to tackle a commercialized warfare with the U.S. 

"In my riding, radical are telling me: 'Make definite we propulsion back, marque definite we enactment successful measures that amusement the U.S. that tariffs are unjustified,'" helium said.

Serré says he's besides proceeding concerns astir Pierre Poilievre not being capable to correspond the interests of Canadians due to the fact that of connections betwixt his enactment and the Trump administration. 

The run managers of five of the six Conservative candidates successful northeastern Ontario declined to talk with the CBC astir today's tariffs. The sixth one did not respond to the request. 

'Tariffs are not the lone contented facing Canadians'

Federal NDP campaigner for Sudbury Nadia Verrelli said she's been proceeding a batch of concerns astir tariffs, but she cautioned against making it a defining contented successful this campaign. 

"Yes radical are disquieted astir tariffs, but they are besides disquieted astir affordability, healthcare, housing… tariffs are not the lone contented facing Canadians." 

She says if she was elected MP she would absorption connected making definite the North isn't near down if the commercialized warfare ramps up. 

"We successful the North powerfulness this country, with the captious mineral proviso chain," she said. "But erstwhile it comes to the authorities pumping wealth into the economy, it seems lone the NDP remembers this." 

U.S. President Donald Trump is acceptable to denote a caller tariff propulsion aboriginal today. It's not yet wide which countries oregon what sectors his authorities volition beryllium targeting.