Earlier in the day, cabinet ministers were careful not to declare victory after Trump was sworn into office without mentioning Canada at all, and with no sign of the punishing tariffs he's been threatening since the November election.
On the second floor of the Château Montebello’s lobby, there are framed photographs commemorating the visits of Ronald Reagan in 1981 for a G7 summit and George W. Bush for a meeting of North American leaders in 2007.
Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc said Canada is "absolutely" prepared if President Donald Trump levies 25 per cent tariffs against Canada next month. Ottawa has potential response scenarios at the ready,
Canadian leaders expressed relief that broad tariffs were not applied to Canadian products on the first day of Donald Trump’s presidency.
Mr Trump had threatened to impose sweeping tariffs on Canada, Mexico and other trading partners. Still, Mr Trump pledged in his inaugural address that tariffs would be coming and said foreign countries would be paying the trade penalties, even though those taxes are currently paid by domestic importers and often passed along to consumers.
Canada’s governing Liberal Party will announce the country’s new prime minister March 9 after a leadership vote following Justin Trudeau's resignation.
Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc said reprieve is too strong of ... Danielle Smith, the premier of Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta, said she was “pleased to see that today President ...
Canada is prepared to impose retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. if Trump eventually moves ahead with any trade action. Officials have already drawn up a plan that will levy immediate tariffs on $37-billion worth of American goods if Trump moves against Canada.
With only hours to go until U.S. president-elect Donald Trump heads back to the Oval Office, Canadian officials say they still don’t know whether he will follow through on his standing threat to level punishing tariffs on Canadian goods.
Politicians and observers say Canada is far from out of the woods ... She was flanked by Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Public Safety Minister David McGuinty, who said they were still ...
OTTAWA — The federal Liberals are running their first leadership race in more than a decade to replace the departing Justin Trudeau. Candidates must declare by 5 p.m. ET on Jan. 23 with a $50,000 deposit towards a $350,