🔌 Ontario won’t walk back retaliatory measures despite one-month tariff exemption for many Canadian goods

Ontario will be going ahead with its retaliatory measures against the U.S. despite a one-month reprieve on the 25 per cent tariff placed on many Canadian goods.

U.S. booze will remain off LCBO shelves and a planned 25 per cent export tax on the electricity that Ontario sends to three U.S. states will still go into effect as planned on Monday.
#US #energy #Ontario
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🪖PM's intelligence adviser says it's time for Canada to be 'selfish' and protect itself

We need to be a little bit more selfish now. Yes we need to make our NATO target, we need to make sure that we remain a reliable partner for NORAD. But we need first to think about Canada and how to protect Canada and this is where our focus should be.

- Nathalie Drouin, intelligence and security adviser.

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🪖Defence analysts warn U.S. will control key systems on F-35 fighter jets, putting Canada at risk

The U.S. will have full control over upgrades and software improvements necessary to keep the Canadian military’s new fleet of F-35 fighter jets flying.

The Department of National Defence has dismissed claims the U.S. has a “kill switch” that can disable the $19-billion aircraft fleet but it did acknowledge the Americans control the software and hardware upgrades needed for continued operations of the plane.

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🥃 Jack Daniel’s maker says Canada pulling U.S. alcohol off store shelves is ‘worse than a tariff’

Jack Daniel’s maker Brown-Forman Corp.’s CEO Lawson Whiting said Canadian provinces taking American liquor off store shelves was “worse than a tariff” and a “disproportionate response” to levies imposed by the Trump administration.

Several Canadian provinces have taken U.S. liquor off store shelves as part of retaliatory measures against President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

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🗳Mark Carney is the new Liberal leader, replacing Justin Trudeau

Mark Carney has been elected the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, securing 85.9 percent of the vote.
#election
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Ford, Chow congratulate Carney on federal Liberal Party leadership win, say they’re eager to work together

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow both say they’re looking forward to working with the federal Liberal Party’s newly elected leader and soon-to-be prime minister of Canada.

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Mark Carney vows to win trade war with Trump

In much of his victory speech, Mark Carney attacked Donald Trump, who has imposed tariffs on Canada.

Americans should make no mistake. In trade, as in hockey, Canada will win.

Carney is expected to be sworn in the coming days and will lead the Liberals in the next general election.
#Carney
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🇧🇩💸 Canada gives $272M in aid to Bangladesh, Indo-Pacific as USAID shuttered

Canada’s Minister of International Development, Ahmed Hussen, unveiled $272.1 million in new funding on Sunday for foreign aid projects in Bangladesh and the Indo-Pacific region.

The money will fund 14 different projects in Bangladesh and other countries in the Indo-Pacific region.

This decision feels completely disconnected from reality.

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🏦 Bank of Canada expected to cut interest rate again as trade war with U.S. disrupts economy

The Bank of Canada is widely expected to cut interest rates for a seventh consecutive time on Wednesday.

At its last rate announcement in January, the central bank lowered its benchmark rate by a quarter-percentage point, to 3 per cent, as insurance against the possibility of a trade war.

In the current circumstances, traders and analysts expect the bank to focus more on the risk of a recession than the rise in imported goods prices as Ottawa retaliates with its own tariffs and the Canadian dollar depreciates.

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🇰🇷🪖 South Korea wants to sell submarines to Canada as relations sour with U.S.

South Korea is pitching Canada on a host of new military equipment deals, pointing out that the Asian nation can not only deliver defence systems quickly but that it is a trustworthy ally.

A delegation of a dozen South Korean defence industry and government officials visited Ottawa on March 5 and March 6, with proposals to provide the Canadian Forces with a variety of new equipment, including howitzers, training aircraft, rocket launchers and submarines.
#SouthKorea
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9 years as PM:

✅ Stole your money
✅ Stole your best years
✅ Stole a chair from the House of Commons

#Trudeau
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Any ideas where he's taking the chair? I have one:

#Trudeau
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📊 Fewer than 40% of 400,000 registered Liberals voted in leadership race

After the Liberal Party boasted in January of signing up nearly 400,000 registered Liberals, only about 38 per cent of them made it through the verification process and turned out to vote in the race that elected Mark Carney as the party’s new leader and Canada’s next prime minister.

The party said 163,836 people successfully went through the authentication process. Of those, 151,899 voted in the race, or 93 per cent, which is the percentage the party is using for turnout.

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Do you think the Liberals have introduced Trudeau 3.0?

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🇺🇸Trump says he’s doubling tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum

President Donald Trump said he would increase steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada to 50% to retaliate against Ontario’s move raising taxes on electricity sent to the US.

This will go into effect TOMORROW MORNING, March 12th.

Trump said Tuesday in a social media post.
#Ontario #US
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B.C. will remove consumer carbon tax as promised once federal barrier is down, Eby says

British Columbia Premier David Eby says his government will move as quickly as it can to remove the consumer-based carbon tax once the federal law upholding it is removed.

Eby's response comes after Mark Carney won the federal Liberal leadership race and reiterated during his speech Sunday that he will reverse the consumer carbon price.
#BritishColumbia
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🇺🇸 Premier Ford announces he's suspending the 25% surcharge on energy sent to the US. Ford says he, along with Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc, will travel to the meet with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

#Ontario #US
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🇺🇸 Canadian travel to US plummets amid tariff, statehood threats

The number of Canadian-resident return trips by car from the US plunged 23% from a year ago in February, marking the second straight month with a year-over-year decline, Statistics Canada reported Monday.

The annual drops in January and February were the first and second since March 2021.
#US
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⚡️The Bank of Canada has cut its policy rate by 25 basis point to 2.75 per cent.

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🇺🇸 Canada announces $29.8 billion in retaliatory tariffs on US

Canada will impose $29.8 billion in retaliatory tariffs on the United States effective Thursday morning in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs, Canada's Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc said.

#US
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Carney receiving national security briefings ahead of swearing-in

According to a source close to Mark Carney, he is receiving national security briefings days ahead of his anticipated swearing-in as prime minister of Canada.

Posts on social media show Carney also had meetings in the Ottawa area with Canada’s ambassador to the United States Kirsten Hillman, the fentanyl czar Kevin Brosseau and the Chief of the Defence Staff, General Jennie Carignan.

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