Premier Doug Ford has unveiled $11 billion in tax deferment and rebate measures to offset damage caused by U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.
“In the face of President Trump’s attacks on Ontario’s economy, our government will do whatever it takes to protect Ontario workers and businesses,” Ford said in a statement Monday.
“Today’s measures will help give workers and businesses the support they need in the face of growing economic uncertainty,” the premier said.
US President Donald Trump’s advisers have defended sweeping tariffs on imports and vowed to stay the course, despite market turmoil and calls to avoid a trade war.
In a series of television interviews, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent played down recent stock market falls and Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, insisted reciprocal tariffs would be implemented as planned.
Bessent said there was “no reason” to expect a recession as a result of the turmoil. “This is an adjustment process,” he said.
Here is Carney admitting he’s a carpetbagger.
BREAKING
A video has surfaced of Mark Carney stating that he offered pro-bono consulting to politicans
SO THAT BROOKFIELD SHAREHOLDERS COULD PROFIT FROM THE POLICIES!!
THIS IS MASSIVE!! pic.twitter.com/4YcYkYc2sw
— Tablesalt (@Tablesalt13) April 6, 2025
The ache of Donald Trump’s Liberation Day noir will go beyond disaster for thousands of Canadians who lose their jobs and see their savings debased by stagflation and battered markets. There will also be historic political implications for whoever forms Canada’s next government.
While we were “spared” the heavier blows that Trump placed on many other countries, Canadian households very much face a painful future of reduced incomes, diminished nest eggs and higher living costs.
Canada is entering its greatest existential upheaval since Confederation. Besides Trump duties that will make Canadian autos, steel and aluminum less affordable to U.S. customers, China has slapped exorbitant tariffs on Canadian canola, seafood and pork exports that will punish farming and commercial fishing families.
Pay attention to who is melting down the most over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump implemented this week. It’s the same wealthy Wall Street elites and career politicians who have been exploiting American workers and pillaging the middle class for decades.
America has gotten unbelievably wealthy in recent decades. Not the working class, who have been systematically pillaged by the asset rich. Trump just took on the entire international global order on behalf of our abandoned working class. Thank you @RCamposDuffy for having me! pic.twitter.com/TgcBoAWGVF
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) April 6, 2025
This is the region I report out of— there are great big swaths of this country whether it is the Appalachian Midwest, Plains cattle ranchers or manufacturers everywhere — they have a very different worldview than those melting down over tariffs—they are more than willing to wait… https://t.co/p3q9IWFeXC
— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) April 5, 2025
Water boy Carney’s backers are scared they’ll lose their spot at the public trough.
A few weeks ago, I argued that the strongest political opposition to Donald Trump resided right here in Canada.
Turns out, that’s an increasingly dangerous place to be.
As the latest round of tariffs on our automotive sector prove, it’s an increasingly economically painful place to be.
And if Donald Trump’s musings over a third term are to be believed — and they should — that may be the case not just for four years, but for at least eight. A near decade more of economic coercion and geopolitical volatility.
Less deranged than is usual for the Star.
While most of the world was left shocked and dismayed by President Donald Trump’s tariff roll-out on “Liberation Day” earlier this week, at least one foreign government was quietly celebrating.
“This is great for the country,” Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said the next day. Mexico and Canada, as part of the USMCA free trade agreement, avoided the imposition of any additional tariffs during Trump’s announcement Wednesday, while the average tariff rate on U.S. imports is set to skyrocket to 29 percent from just two percent previously.
h/t DS
Outside City Hall in Windsor, Ontario, it was apparent on Friday morning that at least one American thing wasn’t being boycotted. Fans dressed in Detroit Tigers clothing were gathering at a bus stop to cross the river to take in the team’s home opener.
Beyond the opening day festivities, however, it was a week of particularly bad news for Windsor, my hometown.
It’s over.
After a century and a half of building an economic and military partnership that survived two world wars, the Great Depression, the Cold War and the 9/11 attacks, the United States and Canada are breaking up.
The US began collecting a 10% “baseline” tariff on all imports on Saturday as President Donald Trump urged Americans to “hang tough” after market turmoil.
The UK and France are among hundreds of countries impacted and its leaders have said nothing is off the table. While China, which has been hit the hardest by President Trump’s tariffs, announced a significant retaliatory response.
All three major stock indexes in the US plunged more than 5% on Friday, with the S&P 500 dropping almost 6%, capping the worst week for the US stock market since 2020.
The prime minister will declare an end to globalisation and admit that it has failed millions of voters as the fallout from President Trump’s tariffs reverberates around the world.
In his first significant intervention since the United States imposed sweeping charges on imports, Sir Keir Starmer will say tomorrow that the seismic global economic effects prove the government must “move further and faster” to boost growth with supply-side reforms.
NEW: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to declare that globalization has failed, plans to show that he understands President Trump’s tariff decision.
The announcement is set for Monday, according to The Times.
“Globalisation doesn’t work for a lot of working people. We don’t… pic.twitter.com/oYhqyG29m3
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 5, 2025
Carney is a globalist profiteer who carries water for the folks that shipped your jobs out of the country and imported cheap labour to depress wages and impoverish your family.
Carney is so despicable that he will keep Canada’s oil in the ground so he and his pals can exploit the “energy transition” for personal gain.
Carney has also invited fellow globalist predator Mark Wiseman of the Century 100 Initiative to assist in Canada’s destruction through mass immigration.
Carney is your enemy not Trump.
As geopolitical friction between Canada and the United States intensifies, particularly on the trade front, the real battleground may not be in boardrooms or policy circles – it may be in grocery aisles across the country.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made it clear in an interview with CNN that the era of trade imbalances is over, and under President Trump, the U.S. will no longer tolerate unfair treatment.
During a discussion with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, Bessent confidently explained the administration’s position on tariffs and trade policy, signaling that Trump’s economic strategy is deliberate and well thought out.
h/t DS
A week can feel like a lifetime in an election campaign.
Over the past several days, candidates from all parties have traversed the country, delivering carefully honed messages on everything from job creation to national security. But as I’ve said before, amid the headlines and horse-race chatter, there are often subtler signs of where things might be headed. With the second week of the campaign winding down, I see three polling numbers worth paying special attention to.
We were posted at the front of a large public high school auditorium in the Land of the Free in 2015. Both of us were responsible for maintaining some semblance of order as 150 to 200 students socialized, did homework, and ate lunch.
I can’t tell you what my partner saw, but I saw girls sitting on their boyfriends’ laps. I noticed a student climbing over chairs to get from A to B. Some students were throwing things.
With Donald Trump as president, there is now a heavy strain of Christian nationalism driving the US political agenda. From draconian abortion policies to ending birthright citizenship, some of Trump’s first executive orders sound startlingly like something out of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the dystopian novel turned TV show set in Gilead, a fundamentalist, fascist version of the US where women have no rights. But it is urgent we understand that what is happening in the US could happen here. This road to Atwood’s Gilead is charting a course straight through the UK and Europe, and we may well be sleepwalking on to it.
The Guardian has no shortage of hysterics.
