Tag: Ottawa
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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…
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Canada and the United States enter the final hours of a three-day reprieve from the first Section 338 tariffs in the statute’s 96-year history, with roughly US$20 billion in cross-border trade riding on documents that still are not signed OTTAWA, August 21, 2026 – Canadian and American negotiators are working against a midnight expiry tonight…
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Carney has asked premiers to return American alcohol to liquor store shelves and stop excluding the United States from procurement, dismantling the retaliation that Washington converted into a legal finding of discrimination CHARLOTTETOWN, August 20, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney used a virtual first ministers meeting on Wednesday to ask every province and territory to…
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Washington postpones 50 per cent Section 338 duties on roughly US$20 billion of Canadian goods until the end of day August 21 as President Trump declares a deal is done. Ottawa is more guarded, warning that “important work” remains before anything is signed. OTTAWA, August 19, 2026 Canadian exporters woke up on Wednesday to a…
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A 50 per cent tariff on roughly 52 Canadian dairy classifications takes effect August 19 over how Ottawa hands out quota licences, turning an obscure administrative dispute into the most consequential test yet of Canadian supply management By Peacock Tariff Consulting, Canada Trade Desk OTTAWA, August 12, 2026 Of the three American tariff proclamations set…
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Dominic LeBlanc’s third negotiating round in three weeks leaves Canada eight days to head off an unprecedented 50 per cent tariff on nearly US$20 billion of exports, and for the first time CUSMA compliance offers no shelter By Peacock Tariff Consulting, Canada Trade Desk OTTAWA, August 12, 2026 Canada’s minister responsible for Canada-United States trade,…
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Opposition letter accuses Ottawa of eighteen months of one-way concessions and sets out a four-point test for any deal before the August 19 tariff deadline OTTAWA, August 9, 2026 – The Canadian government’s approach to the United States trade file came under direct opposition attack Sunday, as Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre released a letter to…
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Quebec declares the American alcohol boycott a matter of provincial jurisdiction alone, complicating a federal negotiation in which liquor shelves have become a tariff trigger OTTAWA, August 9, 2026 – The Quebec government has told Ottawa and Washington that American alcohol will remain off provincial liquor store shelves until the province is satisfied with the…
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Canadian producers tell Ottawa that supply management is not currency as Washington talks accelerate toward an August 19 tariff wall OTTAWA, August 9, 2026 – Canada’s dairy producers have drawn the sharpest public line yet against the federal government’s negotiating strategy with the United States, warning that any further loosening of the supply management system…