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Donald Trump imposed new tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum Wednesday. Follow today for the Star’s live coverage. 7 a.
m. Canadian ministers, Ontario premier to meet with Lutnick as tariff fight continues WASHINGTON—Canadian officials are set to meet with the U.S.
commerce secretary in Washington today — days after a dust-up with U.S. President Donald Trump that ended with Ontario pausing its surcharge on electricity exports to the United States.
Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc, Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman and Ontario Premier Doug Ford are meeting with Howard Lutnick, and Ford says his goal for the meeting is to get a coherent sense of the Trump administration’s plans for tariffs.
Trump expanded his global trade war on Wednesday by hitting every country, including Canada, with 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminum. Read more from the Canadian Press 7 a.m.
New poll suggests 40% of Canadians fear losing their jobs due to Trump’s tariffs OTTAWA—A new poll suggests that 40 per cent of Canadians are worried about losing their jobs as many businesses scale back hiring plans in response to the trade war with the United States. The Leger poll, which sampled more than 1,500 Canadian adults from March 7 to March 10, suggests that more than half of workers in Ontario were concerned about job security, the highest in the country, while just under one in four in Atlantic Canada said they were worried. Thirty-nine per cent of people in British Columbia and in Manitoba/Saskatchewan reported they’re worried about losing their jobs, compared to 35 per cent of people in Alberta and 26 per cent of people in Quebec.
Read more from the Canadian Press Trump says Americans are ‘OK’ with a little disturbance. With U.S.
households facing a tax increase of more than $1,200 a year, they aren’t U.S. President Donald Trump began his inaugural address Jan.
20 with these words: “The golden age of America begins right now.” Most Americans do not yet feel they are living in a more prosperous age. To the contrary, they are afraid that the inflation Trump vowed to destroy will come roaring back.
They fear that tens of thousands of jobs are at risk from Trump’s tariffs and massive federal layoffs. And that the Trump administration will reduce Social Security, Medicaid and veterans’ benefits to close an immense federal budget gap. In recent weeks, investors spooked by tariff uncertainty have sold off hundreds of billions of dollars in stocks.
Americans are right to be concerned. Read more from the Star’s Business columnist David Olive Catch up on what happened Wednesday Trump’s interest in absorbing Canada not on the agenda at G7 meeting, says Rubio U.S.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters Wednesday that Trump believes Canada as an American state makes sense “from an economic standpoint.” “He says if they became the 51st state, we wouldn’t have to worry about the border and fentanyl coming across because now we would be able to manage that,” said Rubio. “He’s made an argument that it’s their interest to do so.
Obviously the Canadians don’t agree, apparently.” However, Rubio said none of that is on the agenda at this week’s G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Charlevoix, Que. “That’s not what we’re going to discuss at the G7,” he said.
”They are the host nation, and I — I mean, we have a lot of other things we work on together. We defend North America through Norad and the airspace of our continent together, so — not to mention the issues of Ukraine and other commonalities. So we’re going to be focused in the G7 on all of those things.
That’s what the meeting is about. It is not a meeting about how we’re going to take over Canada.”.
