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China Labour Watch interviewed 50 workers at BYD facility in Hungary. As Canada lowers its tariffs and imports more electric vehicles from China, an upcoming report from New York-based labour rights researchers is making new allegations of forced labour practices at the world's bestselling EV manufacturer, BYD. China Labor Watch (CLW) received a complaint last fall from one of the...
Michael Ma's industry committee confrontation amplifies risk of U.S. tariff retaliation. Liberal MP Michael Ma's apology for confronting an academic witness about whether her evidence on forced labour in Chinese aluminum supply chains could be "hearsay" coincides with a highly sensitive moment in Canada's ongoing trade war with the Trump administration. After some of the tariffs Canada faced were struck...
Negotiations to add digital trade provisions begin Thursday. As relations with the Trump administration remain fraught and uncertain, trade ministers from Canada and the European Union are set to sign on to a series of improvements to their bilateral trade agreement. Maroš Šefčovič, the European Union commissioner for trade and economic security, will join International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu in...
Spending included $3M for 'Choose Canada' campaign last fall. The federal government reallocated its advertising budget after Prime Minister Mark Carney's new cabinet was sworn in last year, recently disclosed figures show, shifting its priorities to patriotic and economic messages and purchasing pricey television airtime during major sporting events like the Super Bowl and Winter Olympics. The Treasury Board Secretariat's...
Despite a deal to push government bills through their final stages before the House of Commons rose last Thursday, two pieces of priority budget and border legislation, C-4 and C-12, can't become law until at least February. The Senate did not sit a week beyond the House of Commons this year, so late legislation can't pass through the upper chamber...
British government has been blocking Canadian meat exports since walking away from negotiating table. Canada’s ranchers are calling on the federal government to terminate the trade agreement it’s had in place with the United Kingdom since Brexit, part of a renewed push to persuade the British government to stop blocking Canadian meat exports and get back to the bargaining table...
India's ministry of external affairs announced agreement Friday to 'reactivate bilateral dialogue.' Global Affairs Canada has clarified reports out of India that suggested the two countries were ready to restart bilateral trade negotiations, two years after their diplomatic rupture over the killing of a Canadian Sikh leader on Canadian soil. India's ministry of external affairs issued a statement on Friday...
When Hong Kong democracy activist Henry Chan decided to run for a Saskatchewan Party nomination in his hometown of Saskatoon, he didn't expect to come out of the experience wondering if he'd been a target of foreign meddling. Chan says he was approached at his meet-and-greet event by someone he later discovered on social media may have ties to the...
When Premier Wab Kinew met federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh at the legislature in Winnipeg on Tuesday night, the cameras captured a Manitoba-friendly greeting, but not a public endorsement for Singh's national campaign. That doesn't mean, however, that Kinew's party doesn't support Singh's team. When CBC News asked Elmwood–Transcona candidate Leila Dance at Singh's event the next morning whether she's...
Ontario has reached an agreement with the federal government that will see $108.5 million roll out over the next three years to help fund a school food program in the province. Officials said the money represents a first round of funding, with federal support for the program in the years ahead still to be negotiated.
The fight over Canada's controversial digital services tax may escalate this week as the deadline looms for the Biden administration to decide whether to proceed with dispute arbitration amid threats of retaliation from Donald Trump's incoming administration. On Aug. 30, United States Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai filed an official complaint under the Canada–United States–Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) arguing that the...
Senators on the foreign affairs committee amended a controversial agricultural trade bill Wednesday, putting it on a path back to the House of Commons. The private member's bill proposed by Bloc Québécois MP Luc Thériault, C-282, would prohibit Canadian trade negotiators from making future concessions opening up its protected dairy, egg and poultry markets.
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew's NDP government is set to become the second province to sign on for a slice of the $1 billion federal school food program. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and Social Development Minister Jenna Sudds are expected to join the premier Friday morning to announce an agreement that will see over $17 million in additional federal funding added...
As the House of Commons debated the Bloc Québécois' demand for an increase to pensions for younger seniors this week, the dysfunction driving the second condition in Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet's ultimatum was hiding in plain sight. During question period Wednesday, Blanchet reminded the House that Bill C-282 — a Bloc private member's bill that would prevent Canadian trade negotiators...
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly's announcement Tuesday that Canada has suspended 30 permits to export military materiel to Israel may have been meant to placate pro-Palestinian activists demanding an arms embargo. But without more transparency, it remains a political muddle. One week out from a byelection in a previously safe Liberal seat in Montreal where New Democrats (and their pamphlets)...
For anyone who spent their childhood riding stinky, noisy school buses, it's a revelation to climb aboard one of the electric models coming off the assembly line at Lion Electric in Saint-Jérôme, Que., northwest of Montreal. "The only thing you hear is the wheels on the road," said founder and CEO Marc Bédard. Proponents believe kids who ride e-buses show...
Pierre Poilievre's call for tariffs gives the government cover to act — but risks abound. Now that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his party have joined the chorus calling for more action against Chinese imports, a key decision facing Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland this month just got a little easier. Cross-party consensus on the wisdom of lining up with the...
An attempt by the Liberals to avoid holding the 2025 federal election on a date that conflicts with a religious festival appears set to be overruled by the Opposition, following claims that the new date sets up a financial conflict of interest for MPs first elected in 2019. The current election law says that unless Parliament is dissolved early, the...
The next community set for a massive boost to its local economy as part of Honda Canada's $15-billion investment to establish a Canadian electric vehicle supply chain will be Port Colborne, Ont. Company executives are expected to join Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford, as well as federal Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne and Ontario's economic development minister...
When word of Honda's soon-to-be-announced electric vehicle investment leaked to Bloomberg News on Sunday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford saw an opening to boast about his government's success in getting into the automotive battery business. "We've overtaken China and knocked them off the pedestal for the first time ever," he told the First Nations Major Project Coalition conference on Monday morning...
5-member panel decided not to warn public about potential interference during the campaign. Top bureaucrats on a panel tasked with reviewing possible threats to the 2019 federal election warned the Liberal Party of concerns about the riding nomination contest in Don Valley North, the Foreign Interference Commission heard Monday. Nathalie Drouin, who was deputy minister of justice and deputy attorney...
The grey weather outside Darren Larvin's window in Wiltshire, U.K., when he spoke to CBC News last Tuesday matched the forecast for his company's Canadian cheese sales in 2024. "Essentially, we're going to fall off the edge of a cliff at the end of this year," said the managing director of Coombe Castle International, an award-winning global exporter of British...