Quebec’s premier convenes an emergency meeting on agriculture as Canada’s supply-managed dairy sector, along with thousands of small exporters from hockey stick makers to cabinet shops, braces for Wednesday’s 50 percent American tariff MONTREAL, August 16, 2026 The anxiety radiating through Canada’s farm belt and factory floors this weekend is most acute in Quebec, where…
More than $121 billion in claims and roughly $100 billion paid out, yet the small importers who absorbed the cost of the invalidated IEEPA tariffs say the money is landing everywhere except with them. A refund program built for importers of record is now colliding with class actions, congressional bills and the midterm campaign. WASHINGTON,…
New Brunswick estimates the August 19 tariffs will touch just 0.8 per cent of its exports to the United States. An economist and a small business group warn that the aggregate number conceals what happens to the mill towns and family firms where that 0.8 per cent is concentrated. By Peacock Tariff Consulting, Canada Trade…