The NDP leader, Jagmeet Singh, said Thursday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should remind Parliament to approve legislation to protect workers and businesses if the president of the United States, Donald Trump, continues with tariffs on Canadian goods As promised.
Singh said he is still committed to taking Trudeau’s time in office at the end of this spring. But he said he is willing to support the government to obtain an aid package through the first.
The conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has also been pressing Trudeau to bring the Parliament back to better address the possible commercial challenges.
Talking to journalists in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Singh said Trump is “starting a war” and Canada has to be “ready to defend themselves. We have to fight to protect Canadian works” and that will require taking parliamentarians to Ottawa For the legislation to transfer law.
“The commercial war will hurt us in any way, but we cannot let the workers have the profit,” said Singh.
The liberals are “wrong” if they think they can wait two months to introduce legislation to support workers affected by possible US tariffs, said NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, and added that “nothing changes” with respect to their vote plans to the liberal government in March.
Trudeau will be aside as prime minister after the Liberal Party elected its new leader on March 9. The Parliament is protected until March 24, but the prime minister could bring him back before.
A source of the liberal government, which spoke with CBC News about a history, said there is no plan to remember the Parliament before March 24 despite the Singh request.
The Government has mechanisms at your disposal to protect workers, businesses and national interests, said the source.
“We will respond properly. At this time, there is no plan to remember the Parliament,” said the source.
Singh said: “We will vote against the Government when we return to Parliament at the end of March and there will be an election in spring.”
But there is a lot of time between now and then, said Singh.
“Is the liberal government seriously saying that they won’t do anything for workers for two months and wait until the end of March?
Trudeau has repeatedly said that the government will be there to support workers and companies if Trump continues with tariffs on Saturday.
Government sources have told CBC News that Ottawa is writing a multimillionaire help pack, some of which could be implemented only by the cabinet, while other components may require parliamentary approval in the future.
But the sources have emphasized that it is still too early to say what, if there is something, at this stage.
Trump has threatened 25 percent tariffs, but there is the possibility that they are only attacked in certain sectors, or do not apply at all if the diplomatic efforts of Canada to convince the administration to retreat are successful. The size and scope of a potential relief package have not yet been resolved, fountains said.
The government says it is not clear who will be affected
Speaking to journalists at the Oval office, Trump reiterated on Thursday that tariffs will continue this weekend as planned, but said he has not yet decided if the Canadian oil will be beaten.
“We are going to make that determination probably tonight in the oil, because they send us oil. We’ll see,” he said.
The prices of American gasoline could jump up to $ 0.75 in the US .
Even if the oil is out of Trump’s commercial action, a 25 percent tariff on other Canadian goods would be devastating for the economy, possibly immersing the country in a recession and shaving billions of dollars of GDP.
When asked if the liberal government would consider remembering the Parliament to present a tariff assistance package, the Minister of Tourism, Soraya Martínez Ferrada, says that the government has ‘levers that we can use today’. Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne, added that the federal government is looking for ways in which they can use existing programs to support workers and industries potentially affected by US tariffs.
Canadian officials are largely in the dark about what Trump has planned exactly.
The Minister of Natural Resources, Jonathan Wilkinson, who has been back and forth to Washington and is actively involved in Canada’s response to Trump, said it makes no sense , if something.
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The Minister of Industry, François-Philippe Champagne, who is also active in the Canada-EE archive. UU., Said that the government has levers that can attract the economy without going to Parliament immediately.
“We are looking for ways to use existing programs to support workers, to support industries that could be affected by that,” he said.
Trump’s election for the Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, offered some clarity on Wednesday when he said that the initial section of tariffs on Canada and Mexico will enter into force on Saturday could fall on the way if these two countries show actions on border issues such as the flow of flow of flow of drugs and migrants.
The candidate for the Secretary of Commerce of the United States, Howard Lutnick, warns that Canada could face a double rate blow unless border security is improved. The first could come as soon as Saturday, followed by more tariffs threatened in April when the results of a commercial study of the United States are due.
Ottawa is trying to show US officials that their new border plan of $ 1.3 billion is already paying fruit. It is part of an effort to convince Trump Canada is committed to addressing the problems he says he cares more.
The Minister of Public Security, David McGuinty, told journalists on Wednesday that Canada is actively sharing video images with Americans to show the staff of the Embroidered Services Agency in Canada (CBSA) and RCMP officers at work to what length of the 49th parallel.
That image is “to help show the investments we are doing and that are working,” McGuinty said. “We will continue to go down the border.”
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