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Prime Minister Mark Carney called new 25 per cent tariffs set to be imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump on all vehicles made outside the U.S. next month a “direct attack” on Canadian workers.“We will defend our workers, we will defend our companies, we will defend our country and we will defend it together,” Carney said Wednesday evening.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he is suspicious of a 30-day tariff reprieve for automakers, which he believes could be used to try and tempt companies to move their operations south of the border. Speaking at Queen’s Park on the second day of Canada’s tariff battle with the United States, Ford said he and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau were aligned...
Moments after U.S. President Donald Trump revealed his intention to apply steep tariffs to Canadian exports, Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s office fired off an internal email to Progressive Conservative staffers saying the government needs an even stronger mandate to effectively battle the American president. The internal memo, obtained by Global News, is yet another sign that Ford is set to...
The Ford government’s planned legislation to remove homeless encampments in downtowns and enhance police powers on public drug use won’t be tabled until the end of the week and isn’t expected to pass into law until sometime in the new year. On Thursday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced a plan for legislation designed to remove homeless encampments, offer new funding...
President-elect Donald Trump says a surprise meeting with Justin Trudeau at his Florida home was “very productive,” after the prime minister flew down to discuss the growing threat of American tariffs on Canadian goods, the border and national defence. On Friday evening, Trudeau landed in Florida and travelled to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club for a hastily arranged dinner and discussion with...
A historic Liberal victory in Monday’s New Brunswick election may not be the boost Justin Trudeau needs, according to local experts, who believe the provincial race was a referendum on the outgoing premier and not the embattled prime minister. Susan Holt’s Liberals beat out Blaine Higgs’ incumbent Progressive Conservatives in Monday’s election, denying the latter his seat in the legislature...
Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives are taking the public’s temperature on a possible early election call, Global News has learned, offering yet another sign that Premier Doug Ford is preparing to trigger an election ahead of schedule. Despite the four-year mandate Ford won during the 2022 provincial election, sources said the PC Party has been weighing the risks and benefits of heading...
The Chief of Staff to Ontario Premier Doug Ford routinely relied on a personal email address to facilitate government-related communications, Global News has learned, despite his assertions to Ontario’s Integrity Commissioner that government work is always conducted using an official email address. Global News has viewed dozens of emails sent to and received from Patrick Sackville using a Gmail account...