Ontario Premier Doug Ford said the federal government should prioritize bilateral trade with the United States and abandon the three-country deal with Mexico if it refuses to impose tariffs on Chinese goods.
Ford alleged that cheap Chinese products are being rebranded as Mexican-made and resold to Canada and the United States, bypassing efforts by both countries to restrict Chinese imports.
“What I’m proposing to the federal government [is] we do a bilateral trade deal with the U.S., and if Mexico wants a bilateral trade deal with Canada, God bless them. But I’m not going to be drawn down with these cheap imports, taking men and women’s jobs from hardworking Ontarians,” he said during an unrelated press conference in Barrie, Ont., on Nov. 12….