Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said she is prepared to sit down with Stelco representatives on the basis that the laid off workers are “recalled immediately.”
In a letter dated Oct. 29 obtained by Global News and addressed to Stelco’s president, Paul Simon, Joly said she expects a “concrete and credible plan for re-engagement with these workers.”
OTTAWA – U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra told a closed-door meeting on Tuesday that Ottawa could be blamed if key races in next week’s midterm elections go against U.S. President Donald Trump’s Republican Party.
According to three sources with knowledge of the discussions, Hoekstra delivered the message at a private business lunch hosted at his official residence in Ottawa.
The sources said Hoekstra expressly mentioned races in Michigan and Maine, where the Republicans need to win if they hope to hold on to the U.S. Senate.
Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said Canada needs “to send a message” by calling out the U.S. owner of Stelco for breaking its promise to protect Canadian jobs.
Cleveland-Cliffs, which owns Stelco, had last month announced it was eliminating 500 jobs and closing part of its site in Hamilton, Ont. The federal government said the potential layoffs go against its commitments under the Investment Canada Act when it purchased Stelco in 2024.
The outcome of the upcoming U.S. midterm elections could heavily influence the trajectory of the tariff war and Donald Trump’s ongoing behaviour towards Canada, one expert says.
Should the U.S. Democratic party do well in the elections, it would mean more “pressure” on Trump regarding the tariff war, Matt Duss, executive vice-president for the U.S. Center for International Policy, told CTV’s Your Morning on Tuesday.
“I would say that this trade war that the president has declared on China and many other partners and allies around the world is very much a part of these midterms,” he said.
On China? He’s worried about China? Useful Idiot.
Industry Minister Mélanie Joly is calling on the U.S.-based owner of Stelco Inc. to provide a concrete plan and timeline to restore jobs at its Canadian steel mills before she will agree to meet with CEO Lourenco Goncalves.
Cleveland-Cliffs says it’s in full compliance with the promises it made as part of an Investment Canada Act review that allowed its purchase of Stelco in 2024.
The company also says Stelco has requested a meeting between Joly and Goncalves to talk about a path toward resuming full employment for workers who have been temporarily laid off.
SAGUENAY, Quebec—When Nazi planes were blitzing London during World War II and the U.S. needed to build more aircraft and munitions in a hurry, it helped turn this remote place in the Canadian forest into an aluminum-production juggernaut.
Thousands of Canadians labored through frigid conditions to build smelting pots and a hydropower plant to fuel them—in just 18 months. Ever since then, Saguenay’s aluminum plants have supplied American industry.
As the Trump Administration continues its nonsensical tariff attack on Canada’s auto industry, it is becoming increasingly clear the only winner in this trade war is China.
News that Stellantis intends to build some electrified Jeep vehicles in China, with plans to export them around the world including Canada, is another gut punch to Unifor members at the Brampton Assembly Plant and the Canadian auto industry.
The Jeep announcement came quietly, on Sept. 24, delivered by Lü Haitao, the general manager of a joint venture between Stellantis and automaker Dongfeng, a Chinese partner. Reports suggest Chinese Jeep production will begin in 2027.
The head of Canada’s auto parts lobby group says Ottawa and Washington are engaged in talks about a possible trade deal but he’s not certain this will lead somewhere.
Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association, said he learned in recent days of renewed discussions but cautioned it was unclear how intense these talks have grown.
A trade agreement between the United States and Canada would be reached “pretty soon,” President Donald Trump told a campaign rally on Sunday, nine days ahead of crucial US midterm elections.
Tensions between the North American neighbors have been high since trade talks broke down in August, with Trump imposing a slew of new tariffs in response.
“We’ll have that settled pretty soon. They’re willing to give us anything at this moment,” the president said of an agreement during the rally in Port Huron, a Michigan town on the US-Canada border hit hard by his tariff war.
TORONTO, July 7, 2026 /CNW/ – One year after manufacturers warned that U.S. tariffs posed an existential threat to their businesses, a new KPMG survey finds four in 10 manufacturers have moved production to the U.S. or are considering doing so as they adapt to ongoing trade uncertainty and mounting competitive pressures.
I’m beginning to think Carney gets a success fee for every relocation to the US.
Searches of electronic devices such as phones and laptops of travellers entering the United States are up more than 32 per cent this year and are on track to set a new record, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data obtained by CBC News.
The numbers show that during the first three quarters of its 2026 fiscal year, which runs from Oct. 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026, CBP officers searched 52,080 electronic devices. During the same period the previous year, CBP searched 39,251 devices.
We’ll build a new LNG export terminal using Chinese steel, keep letting in cheap welded pipe from Turkey and refuse to negotiate lower tariffs on Canadian steel with the Americans.
But by hook or by crook, the Carney government is going to force Stelco in Hamilton to bring back 500 laid-off workers and produce steel it can’t currently sell.
The US is lifting some of its 50% tariffs on Canadian goods, with the White House saying on Friday it was working to “protect the economic prosperity and national security of the American people”.
The exemptions could also boost Republican candidates in the midterms elections on 3 November, as many US voters list affordability and economic pressures as top issues.
Republican Senator Susan Collins, who is in a tight race in Maine to keep her seat in the election, first announced the exemptions, saying they would help her state’s agriculture industry.
OTTAWA – The Canada—U.S. trading relationship is never going back to what it used to be, and U.S. tariffs are a reality of the future even if the continental trade pact is renewed, says Prime Minister Mark Carney‘s lead trade negotiator Janice Charette.
The goal now is to get the lowest tariff rates possible on the widest possible range of goods, she said.
Carney lied negotiations died.
Detroit’s tourism bureau has completely stopped marketing to Canada, saying they understand that the “antagonistic” American actions have strained relations between the two countries.
Historically, Visit Detroit spent seven figures annually, which is about 10 per cent of its budget, trying to lure Canadians across the border.
