Premiers hint at ‘significant’ tariff relief to come after Carney meeting
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New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt said premiers had a "productive" meeting with Carney that focused on the federal budget and progress on tariff talks with the United States.
New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt said premiers had a “productive” meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday, mainly to discuss the federal budget and progress on tariff talks with the United States.
Noting the impact of U.S. tariffs on New Brunswick, Holt told reporters the group spoke about the plight of the softwood lumber industry and Carney indicated a “significant” new package is coming from the federal government.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford also hinted that an announcement on steel and softwood lumber will be coming in the next “week or so.”
“We talked about the budget, which was positive,” Ford told reporters Monday. “Told him we’re light on the infrastructure but I believe that’s going to be coming, an announcement on steel and softwood lumber that affects Ontario in a big way.”
A spokesperson with Ford’s media relations office said in an email that federal funding on infrastructure is in large part “not net-new and simply not enough in comparison to how much we are investing in infrastructure — over $200 billion.”
The virtual meeting Monday morning was the first since U.S. President Donald Trump halted trade talks between the two countries over an anti-tariff ad Ford’s government ran in U.S. markets.
Ford was asked at Monday’s press conference whether the prime minister had asked the premiers not to run any more trade ads in the U.S.
“He didn’t say anything along those lines,” Ford said.
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