Tag: Ottawa
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Ottawa has given Cleveland-Cliffs five business days to explain how it will honour the employment undertakings it signed to win approval for its $3.4 billion takeover of Stelco. Industry Minister Melanie Joly says the trade war is no defence. OTTAWA and HAMILTON, Ont., Oct. 8, 2026 The federal government has opened a direct legal confrontation…
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Washington’s top trade negotiator says a handful of outstanding files are “quite difficult to resolve,” and rules out a return to zero tariffs, leaving Canadian exporters staring down a January deadline on autos and steel MILWAUKEE, Oct. 3, 2026 The most senior trade official in the Trump administration has publicly lowered expectations for a near…
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Cleveland-Cliffs will indefinitely idle cold-rolled and coated operations at Stelco’s Hamilton Works from October 9, cutting as many as 500 jobs. Ottawa is weighing enforcement action under the Investment Canada Act over five-year employment undertakings attached to the 2024 takeover, while the union accuses the company of lobbying for the tariffs it now blames. HAMILTON,…
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Washington’s Section 338 prohibition on packaged Canadian alcohol took effect September 29, closing a market worth roughly $1.2 billion a year to Canadian distillers, brewers and wineries. Ottawa and the provinces are scrambling with liquidity support while producers discover that a bulk-shipment loophole is dividing the industry into winners and losers. OTTAWA, October 2, 2026…
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Carney heads to the United Nations with no meeting booked with Washington, eight days before the first outright American import bans on Canadian goods take effect OTTAWA, September 21, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney left for the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Monday with no meeting scheduled with President Donald Trump or…
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Washington’s Section 338 prohibitions on Canadian alcohol, dairy proteins, molasses and large motorcycles take effect Tuesday, converting a 50 per cent tariff wall into an outright border closure for roughly $846 million in annual trade OTTAWA, SEPTEMBER 27, 2026 At 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, September 29, a set of Canadian goods that have…
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Ottawa tops up its tariff response fund on the eve of the fall parliamentary sitting, pushing committed support past C$32 billion and signalling that Canada is settling in for a long trade war rather than rushing back to the table. OTTAWA, Sept. 20, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney committed an additional C$7.5 billion to shielding…
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Speaking in Dublin, the U.S. president says an agreement with Canada could come “fairly soon” and insists Ottawa wants one “very badly.” But no talks are formally scheduled, no Canadian concession has been announced, and every date on the calendar between now and October points toward further escalation rather than relief. Ottawa, September 13, 2026…
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Four federal ministers unveil the September 8 counter-tariff schedule and a support package of loans and benefits, as provinces threaten energy and mineral leverage and small business groups question whether relief reaches the firms that need it OTTAWA, August 25, 2026 Four members of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet appeared together in Ottawa on Tuesday…
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Ottawa will match Washington’s new duties dollar for dollar from September 8, targeting American steel, dairy, appliances, farm equipment, pulp and paper and electronics. Canadian importers have roughly two weeks to prepare. OTTAWA, August 23, 2026 – Prime Minister Mark Carney has given Canadian industry a date and a target list. Beginning September 8, the…