Provincial premiers will meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet on Jan. 15 to discuss potential responses to incoming U.S. President Donald Trump’s vow to impose a 25 percent tariff on Canadian imports.
Ahead of the premier’s meeting in Ottawa, Ontario Premier Doug Ford again warned that such trade tensions between allies will only benefit China.
“A costly trade and tariff war between the U.S. and Canada only benefits China and Chinese-backed companies by creating the kind of economic uncertainty and conditions for them to continue to rip off American and Canadian workers,” Ford wrote in a post on the social media platform X on Jan. 15….