Canada’s ministers are starting a three -day summit in the country of the Ontario cabin at a time of greater anxiety for tariffs and trade with the closest commercial partner of Canada, United States.
The Prime Minister of Ontario, Doug Ford, organizes the 13 prime provincial and territorial ministers in Huntsville, Ontario, about 220 kilometers north of Toronto, with meetings on Monday.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney will join them to provide an update on commercial negotiations.
Carney announced his assistance shortly after Donald Trump threatened a 35 percent tariff on Canadian goods that do not comply with the existing Canadian-Mexico Agreement on Commerce, known as Cusma.
Although trade and tariffs are expected to be the main discussion issues, the prime ministers will also meet on Monday with indigenous leaders. In the afternoon, more comprehension memorandums are expected to signed to eliminate barriers for interprovincial trade.
The provinces have been signing a variety of mous To indicate the intentions of amending its laws and regulations as part of the greatest impulse in modern history to liberalize interprovincial trade.
A study estimates that existing commercial obstacles cost the Canadian economy around $ 200 billion annually, and all provinces have expressed their willingness to work on this issue as a means to counteract the tariffs of the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
The Carney meeting with the prime ministers, scheduled for Tuesday morning, arrives at a time when relations between the provinces and the federal government seem to be defrosted.
In June, the ministers met Carney and spent talking about “Great collaboration, great communication” and unity.
The Federal Government is currently working to obtain a deadline on August 1 to mark a new free trade agreement with the United States. Last week, Carney suggested that getting It is unlikely that an agreement without rates is unlikely.
“We are eager to listen to an update on negotiations with the USA. And how these commercial conversations are going because New Brunswick is very interested in seeing an elimination of this uncertainty,” Brunswick’s Prime Minister said Friday, Susan Holt, Susan Holt.
The prime ministers are expected to discuss US relations and internal trade, the diversification of international trade and how to build important projects after the approval of the Federal Government C-5 bill, which seeks to accelerate projects of national importance.
It is also expected to discuss the safety of the Arctic, forest fires and emergency management, labor mobility, immigration, health and public safety.
