🇨🇦🚗 Canada’s auto industry at a crossroads as U.S. incentives lure production south

The Trump administration’s aggressive push to re-industrialize America’s auto sector is shaking Canada’s manufacturing backbone — and business leaders are warning Ottawa to face hard realities before the wheels come off entirely.

The shift:
U.S. President Donald Trump has made no secret of his goal: “bring auto manufacturing home.”
This month alone, GM ended BrightDrop EV production in Ingersoll, and Stellantis moved Jeep Compass production from Brampton to Illinois, eliminating over 4,100 Canadian jobs. Washington’s new 3.75% domestic rebate on U.S.-assembled vehicles until 2030 — effectively a built-in subsidy — now makes relocation irresistible.

Business leaders sound the alarm:
Goldy Hyder, head of the Business Council of Canada, said it bluntly:

“No agreement is not an alternative. We have to hear what is being said.”

Rather than clinging to a fading status quo, Hyder and other insiders say Canada must rethink its strategy — focusing on parts manufacturing, where the U.S. isn’t targeting Canada directly, and developing new value chains immune to Trump’s protectionist squeeze.

The numbers:
• 54,000 Canadians still work in vehicle assembly.
• 66,000 in the parts sector.
• Over 600,000 jobs depend directly or indirectly on auto manufacturing.
But with the Detroit Three now producing just 20% of Canada’s vehicles, the trend line is clear: production is leaving, not growing.

What Ottawa can do:
Experts like Toyota’s former VP Stephen Beatty urge Canada to tie tariff-free imports to domestic production quotas, forcing automakers to build more cars here if they want market access. Others suggest targeted incentives — not bailouts — to direct the industry toward electric and autonomous manufacturing.

“Making vehicles is pound for pound about twice as valuable as making parts,” said Brendan Sweeney of the Trillium Network for Advanced Manufacturing. “Keeping production in Canada is an economic necessity, not nostalgia.”

The bottom line:
Trump’s tariffs and subsidies have flipped the noscript, Canada is now fighting to keep a seat at the auto table it helped build. Ottawa’s next move will decide whether the industry adapts or fades into memory.

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🇨🇦🏠 Trump’s new tariffs rattle Canada’s housing market

The weekend’s 10% tariff hike — Trump’s latest trade broadside against Canada — is already sending shockwaves through markets far from the negotiating table. Analysts say the escalation may delay housing recovery, push the Bank of Canada toward more rate cuts, and erode buyer confidence just as the market was finding its footing.

The trigger:
After the Ontario government aired an anti-tariff ad quoting Ronald Reagan, Trump called it “fraudulent,” tore up ongoing trade talks, and announced new tariffs “over and above” existing ones. The move, driven by politics more than economics, threatens to deepen uncertainty at a time when many Canadians are barely regaining optimism about affordability.

Real estate on edge:
CREA had forecast a cautious rebound for 2026. That optimism now hangs on whether cooler heads can resume negotiations. CMHC warns that tariff turbulence remains the single biggest variable for housing stability. If the trade war drags on, construction costs and supply chains could tighten, stalling projects and slowing sales.

The rate-cut question:
With Canada’s economy already fragile, economists expect the Bank of Canada to cut interest rates by 25 basis points this week — and possibly more in early 2026. CIBC’s Benjamin Tal put it bluntly:

“We need to cut interest rates now… and if they don’t cut, they will cut after that, because they have to.”

Carney stays calm:
From Malaysia, Prime Minister Mark Carney struck a diplomatic tone, saying Canada “stands ready to build on progress” once Washington is prepared to return to talks. But until then, Canadians are left with a familiar feeling — waiting for Washington’s volatility to pass while hoping their mortgage rates follow the opposite direction.

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🇨🇦🇺🇸 Ford says mission accomplished after Trump furor over Ontario’s anti-tariff ad

Premier Doug Ford doubled down Monday, calling his government’s Reagan-themed anti-tariff campaign “very effective” — despite it triggering President Trump to abruptly cut off U.S.–Canada trade talks.

The spark:
Ontario’s $75 million U.S. ad campaign quoted Ronald Reagan’s 1987 warning that tariffs destroy jobs and markets. Trump branded the spot “fraudulent,” accusing Canada of manipulating Reagan’s legacy — before adding new tariffs and suspending negotiations.

Ford’s defense:
“You know why President Trump is so upset right now? Because it was effective. It woke up the whole country.”

Ford says the commercial ran during both World Series games, reached over a billion impressions, and forced Americans to confront the real cost of tariffs. After consulting Prime Minister Mark Carney, Ford agreed to pause the ads Monday to reopen the door for dialogue with Washington.

Reagan Foundation pushes back:
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation called the ad “misrepresentative,” saying Ontario never sought permission and it’s “reviewing legal options.” Ford insists Reagan’s words were unedited and public-domain:

“He was a free trader. He hated tariffs — and you can look at the clips.”

Political fallout:
Opposition leaders blasted the premier. NDP Leader Marit Stiles said Ford “screwed up,” while Liberal Leader John Fraser called it “thoughtless.” Yet Ford says every premier he spoke with backed him — and that he “got his money’s worth.”

The bigger picture:
What began as a provincial ad buy is now reshaping continental trade politics. For better or worse, Ontario just forced tariffs and free trade back onto America’s nightly news — and onto the front line of U.S.–Canada relations.

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🇨🇦🇺🇸 “Canada burned the bridges”: U.S. ambassador says no tariff deal before new year

U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra says any hope of a Canada–U.S. trade breakthrough is dead for now — blaming Ottawa for “burning bridges” after Ontario’s Reagan-themed anti-tariff ad triggered Donald Trump’s fury. Speaking to manufacturers on Monday, Hoekstra said a potential deal on steel, aluminum, oil, and uranium was days away before the fallout. Now, he says, “Donald Trump didn’t slam the door — Canada did.”

Prime Minister Mark Carney, speaking from Malaysia, admitted talks had been making progress before the controversy but remains ready to resume when Washington is. Ford, meanwhile, stood firm: “Mission accomplished. We woke America up. They’re talking about it now.” The premier said he won’t apologize for fighting for Ontario workers, adding, “If it wasn’t the ad, Trump would’ve found another excuse.”

Once again, the fallout of one ad has turned into a full-scale diplomatic chill — with the U.S. accusing Canada of interference and Ottawa insisting it simply told the truth.

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🇨🇦 Tariffs bite hard: Canada’s GDP shrinks for first time in over a year

Canada’s economy has officially stumbled under the weight of Trump’s escalating tariff war. According to new data from Statistics Canada, real GDP fell 0.4% in the second quarter of 2025, marking the first contraction in more than a year and the steepest quarterly drop since 2009 (excluding the pandemic years).

Exports plunged 7.5%, hammered by U.S. tariffs on steel, aluminum, autos, and other goods outside the CUSMA framework. The impact rippled across key sectors — manufacturing, wholesaling, and employment all slowed or declined. Businesses tied to cross-border trade say they’re now scrambling to find ways around U.S. tariffs, with 54% of manufacturers and 44% of wholesalers reporting direct impacts by May.

The pain is showing up on store shelves too. Prices for cars, clothing, appliances, groceries, and even travel services have all climbed as companies pass rising costs onto consumers. Roughly a third of businesses have already raised prices, while nearly half expect to do so within the next year.

Employment, meanwhile, has stagnated — with no net job growth between February and August. Public sector hiring has cooled, and private sector growth has stayed below 2% for 17 consecutive months.

The takeaway: the tariff war is not just a political spat — it’s now a full-fledged economic drag. Canada’s manufacturing heartland is feeling it first, but consumers across the country are next in line.

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🇨🇦 Canada braces for new immigration targets amid rising unemployment and political tension

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is preparing to unveil its first Immigration Levels Plan in early November — a policy now under intense scrutiny as unemployment rises and pressure builds to balance economic needs with social capacity.

The plan will set new limits for permanent and temporary residents. Ottawa is weighing whether to reduce immigration again, following last year’s decision to lower permanent residency targets to 395,000 in 2025, 380,000 in 2026, and 365,000 in 2027, alongside a pledge to cut one million temporary residents by 2027.

Canada’s immigration mix remains heavily tilted toward economic immigrants, who make up roughly 60% of new permanent residents — mainly young, skilled workers arriving through the Express Entry or Provincial Nomination Programs. But over 40% of those granted permanent residency in 2025 are expected to already be living in Canada, transitioning from student or work permits.

Economists and business groups are divided. Rebekah Young of Scotiabank says the “right number” must meet labour needs without flooding the market or depressing wages. With slowing growth and higher joblessness, she believes Ottawa should aim lower than past years, especially given constraints on housing, healthcare, and education capacity.

Think tanks like the C.D. Howe Institute echo this, urging a shift from headline numbers to earnings potential and productivity. Meanwhile, business advocates warn of shortages in rural and hard-labour sectors, where “jobs Canadians don’t want” — such as night-shift factory or meat-processing work — depend on foreign labour.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has called for scrapping the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) altogether, accusing it of suppressing Canadian wages — though data shows it accounts for less than 10% of all temporary residents, with most coming through the International Mobility Program or study pathways.

Canada’s population growth has now slowed to just 0.1% from April to July, the weakest pace since 2020. But the government still faces a dilemma: scaling back too far risks hollowing out industries already short on talent — while maintaining high inflows could deepen housing and cost-of-living pressures.

As Carney’s government prepares to reveal its new targets, the question isn’t just how many people Canada can bring in, but how many it can truly absorb.

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🇨🇦 Canada misses 2030 climate targets — and maybe that’s not a bad thing

A new analysis from Montréal’s Trottier Energy Institute claims Canada won’t meet its 2030 or 2035 emissions targets — projecting only a 20–25% reduction from 2005 levels, far short of Ottawa’s 40–45% goal. The usual headlines call it a “failure.” But in truth, it may simply be a correction to an unrealistic agenda built on ideology, not economics.

The report blames Ottawa’s decision to pause the EV sales mandate and cancel the consumer carbon tax, arguing those policies slowed progress. But for working Canadians, it’s the opposite — a rare moment of relief from the relentless green squeeze that’s inflated energy bills, gutted industrial competitiveness, and punished the very people who heat their homes or drive to work.

Yes, emissions from Canada’s electricity grid are down nearly 60% since 2005 — a major achievement — but that progress is being offset by increased oil and gas production. And that’s exactly where Canada’s strength lies. The world still runs on hydrocarbons, and pretending otherwise only hands energy markets to regimes that care nothing for the environment.

The so-called “green transition” has become a protection racket for elites, enriching consultants, carbon traders, and ESG investors while crippling real industry. A pause in that momentum may be the healthiest thing that’s happened to the Canadian economy in years.

Instead of chasing fantasy deadlines, Canada should focus on energy sovereignty — investing in efficiency, innovation, and cleaner extraction — while keeping its industrial heart alive. That’s how you protect both the planet and the people who live on it.

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Homeowners in the city of Richmond, BC have reportedly received letters warning that their properties will be seized and returned to the “First Nations People of Canada.”

The letters, signed by the city’s mayor, claim the property noscripts may be “defective and invalid.”

This follows a British Columbia Supreme Court ruling granting the Cowichan Tribes Aboriginal noscript to about 800 acres of land within the city of Richmond.

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🇨🇦 ‘Forever Canadian’ petition crushes target — 456,000 Albertans say no to separatism

Former Alberta deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk has delivered a historic message to Edmonton — and to Premier Danielle Smith. His “Forever Canadian” petition, aimed at affirming Alberta’s place within Canada, gathered a staggering 456,365 signatures, well beyond the 294,000 required to trigger a possible referendum.

Standing before a wall of 61 boxes filled with signatures, Lukaszuk declared that Albertans have spoken clearly: “They don’t want anything to do with separatism. We’re as proud of being Canadian as any other Canadian from sea to sea to sea.”

The petition directly counters the Alberta Prosperity Project, which is pushing for a referendum asking whether the province should “become a sovereign country and cease to be a province of Canada.” Smith’s government recently made it easier for such referendums to proceed by lowering the signature threshold — a move that galvanized Lukaszuk’s pro-unity campaign.

Travelling 7,000 kilometres across the province in a 33-year-old bus, Lukaszuk and volunteers said the experience was emotional and unifying. “There was a lot of laughing and a lot of crying,” he recalled. “People could not imagine not being Canadian.”

Elections Alberta has confirmed receipt of the signatures and will verify them within 60 days, publishing the results by January 6. If certified, the proposal will go before the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly for consideration.

“This exercise,” Lukaszuk said, “was to give the premier a chance to avoid dividing Albertans further. The people have spoken — Alberta is, and remains, forever Canadian.”

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🇨🇦 After decades of neglect, Canada finally wakes up to its Arctic frontier

For the first time in a generation, Ottawa is moving to treat the North not as a postcard, but as a strategic frontier. Projects long left to gather dust, like the 4000km all season, Mackenzie Valley Highway, the Taltson Hydro Expansion, and the Arctic Economic and Security Corridor, are finally gaining traction as part of a broader defence and sovereignty push.

Northwest Territories Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek says the shift reflects a long-overdue realization: “We say we’re the true north, strong and free… but what are we actually doing as a country to invest in it?”

The Mackenzie Valley Highway would permanently link southern Canada to the Arctic Ocean—a $3.5 billion project with both economic and military value. The $3.4 billion Taltson Hydro plan would connect 11 communities (covering 70 per cent of the NWT’s population) to a unified grid, while the Arctic Economic and Security Corridor would open access to critical minerals in the Slave Geological Province, with over $2 billion in federal investment likely required.

Ottawa’s new Major Projects Office, announced by Prime Minister Mark Carney, may finally serve as the bridge between northern priorities and federal cash. That’s urgent: all three of the NWT’s diamond mines face closure, and the region needs a new economic base.

Defence spending is part of the pivot. The Inuvik Airport is undergoing a $230 million upgrade from the Department of National Defence to handle NORAD-scale aircraft, including F-35s—making it only the second Arctic runway in Canada capable of hosting fighter operations.

It’s a long-delayed step toward defending a landmass that accounts for 40 per cent of Canada’s territory—and a reminder that sovereignty is not declared by slogans, but secured through presence, infrastructure, and will.

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🇨🇦☢️ Cameco and Brookfield land $80 billion US nuclear deal with Washington — a quiet power shift in North America’s energy map

In a stunning development for North American energy security, Canadian giants Cameco and Brookfield Asset Management have struck an $80 billion US partnership with the U.S. government to build a fleet of Westinghouse nuclear reactors across the United States.

Under the deal, the Trump administration will arrange financing, approvals, and permitting, giving Washington a direct stake in the reactors — and entitling it to 20 % of profits exceeding $17.5 billion US once the program is built out. The partnership will effectively give America a renewed domestic nuclear backbone while weaving Canadian firms into its critical infrastructure fabric.

Cameco CEO Tim Gitzel called the move a validation of nuclear energy’s global resurgence:

“This partnership highlights the role that Westinghouse’s reactor technologies… are expected to play in the planned expansion of nuclear capacity and diversification of global supply chains.”

For Canada, the implications are enormous. Saskatoon-based Cameco will become one of the most strategically vital energy firms in the Western world, while Brookfield, already a global capital powerhouse, cements its influence over the next generation of North American energy infrastructure.

Washington’s decision to invest directly in Canadian-led nuclear projects marks a new phase in continental re-industrialization, with energy independence, national security, and technological sovereignty converging under one umbrella.

Canada quietly just became indispensable to the U.S. nuclear renaissance.

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🇨🇦 Mark Carney’s Canada: virtue as policy, slogans as strategy.

“Canadians care about the world and we care about each other.”
That’s how the Prime Minister frames a nation staring down trade collapse, spiralling debt, and an identity crisis — with platitudes polished for Davos, not Parliament Hill.

While Canadians line up at food banks and manufacturers brace for another round of U.S. tariffs, Carney’s message is clear: moral branding over material reality.

He speaks of “fighting climate change” and building a “competitive economy,” yet Ottawa’s industrial strategy is being written by the same class that outsourced Canada’s energy, gutted its manufacturing, and now wants to “greenwash” austerity as virtue.

This isn’t compassion. It’s choreography — the politics of empathy masking the economics of managed decline.

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🇨🇦 Bank of Canada Cuts Rates Again — A Lifeline, Not a Victory

The Bank of Canada just cut its key rate for the second straight time, down to 2.25%, signaling what policymakers won’t say outright: Canada’s economy is stalling.

Exports are cratering under Trump’s tariffs. Manufacturing is shrinking. Real GDP fell 0.4% last quarter — the sharpest drop outside the pandemic years. Inflation may look tame on paper, but that’s because the economy is losing altitude, not gaining control.

Governor Tiff Macklem framed the move as “measured,” but let’s be honest — this is triage. Canada’s industrial heartland is bleeding jobs, the housing market is wobbling under debt, and trade with our largest partner has turned weaponized. The cut isn’t to spur growth. It’s to keep the engine from stalling completely.

Behind the polite language of “monetary easing” lies a deeper truth: we’re in the hangover phase of a deindustrialized, over-financialized economy — one that relies on cheap credit and imported everything while calling it prosperity. You don’t fix that with a quarter-point cut; you fix it by rebuilding real production, securing energy, and freeing trade from political blackmail.

The rate cuts will buy time — but not much. Ottawa can’t print productivity.

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🇨🇦🇺🇸 Diplomacy or Drama? Ford Tells U.S. Ambassador to “Bury the Hatchet” After Profane Tirade

Ontario Premier Doug Ford just did what Ottawa wouldn’t — called out Washington’s man in Canada. After U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra reportedly unleashed an expletive-laced tirade against Ontario’s trade envoy over the province’s now-famous anti-tariff ad, Ford said what every grown-up in the room was thinking: “Pick up the phone, apologize, and move on.”

The irony? Hoekstra, a career diplomat, lost his cool over a Ronald Reagan quote reminding Americans that tariffs are taxes on their own people. That’s not fake, that’s economic fact. But in Trump’s Washington, truth apparently hurts more than tariffs.

Ford’s ad reached 11.4 billion impressions, forcing a conversation the establishment wanted buried: Who really pays when the U.S. taxes its largest trading partner? Ford stood his ground — “I’m not rolling over for anyone” — while also extending an olive branch. “Play nice in the sandbox,” he said. “We’re your biggest customer.”

The bigger picture: this episode lays bare the emotional volatility at the heart of U.S. trade politics. Tariffs aren’t policy anymore — they’re theater. And when Ontario quotes Reagan and Washington erupts, it says less about Canada’s offense and more about America’s insecurity.

It's ironic that we are told Trump uses art of the deal tactics to put opponents on the back foot, fine, then take it like a man when the same tactics are used in reverse. Reminds me of hockey players that chirp on the ice and cry when it's done back to them.

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🇨🇦🇺🇸 Trump is often angry but rarely hurt – yet Canada has managed to pull it off

Emma Brockes

On the surface it didn’t seem like a particularly big deal: a TV ad airing on US television, paid for by the Canadian province of Ontario, in which an audio clip of Ronald Reagan denouncing tariffs ran over inspiring footage of the American west and industry. In a folksy voice Reagan explains: “When someone says: ‘Let’s impose tariffs on foreign imports’, it looks like they’re doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while it works – but only for a short time.” He then demolishes the premise of tariffs as anything but an instrument that “hurts every American worker”.

Reagan’s words were taken from a 1987 radio address, and both Trump and the Reagan foundation instantly attacked the ad – in which some of the former president’s remarks were run out of chronological order – with Trump declaring it “FAKE”. (The sentiment of what Reagan said wasn’t altered.) Clearly, however, it’s not the edit that bent Trump so out of shape that, after the ad aired, he called off tariff talks with Canada – the only G7 country that has yet to reach a trade deal with the US – then doubled down by announcing he was “increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now”. This was temper, pure and simple – an expression of pique far outweighing the apparent scale of the insult that had clearly struck some very particular nerve.

When it comes to analysing Trump’s overreactions, I always return to the delicious and staggering freakout he had at the New York Times columnist Gail Collins in 1992 when she referred to him as the “financially embattled thousandaire”. In the wasteland of Trump’s interior life, “rich” is probably the single most crucial pillar of his identity, and by suggesting that he had exaggerated his wealth, Collins cut as close to the marrow as it gets. Sure enough, Trump’s response was, for bizarreness, up there with Elon Musk calling the Thai cave rescuer a “pedo guy” for criticising his dumb submarine: he sent a copy of the column back to Collins with the words “The Face of a Dog!” scrawled over the picture.

Trump wasn’t president then and had only harmless theatrics at his disposal. Obviously things are different now, and by threatening to raise tariffs to 60% on some Canadian goods, Trump will probably hurt US consumers and workers for years to come, not least as Canada seeks to find alternative trade partners. What remains curious is what exactly in the ad so aggressively triggered him – and it has to do, I suspect, with the status of Ronald Reagan relative to the status of Donald Trump.

To those of us who grew up outside the US and witnessed Reagan’s presidency from afar, he often seemed at best a fairly preposterous leader. But in the years since his death, in the US Reagan has come to stand for unimpeachable political authority – and not just on the right – an American icon on a par with John Wayne and a symbol of the soul of the Republican party. At the end of the Ontario ad, a clip of Reagan recording the address shows him wearing a plaid cowboy shirt, and looking rugged and authentic.

There is almost no point of comparison for Trump as far as this image is concerned. Burnished by exactly the nostalgia Trump has leveraged for his own political gain, Reagan’s words and image in that ad pitch the current president’s emptied-out, shiny-suited, barely Republican MAGA movement against Reagan’s “Morning in America again” original – or at least against the modern spin on the original that has so much power today. Con artists are always aware, at some level, of their own fundamental fraudulence, which is why it can be so dangerous to confront them with the truth. I don’t think Trump’s excessive response at the weekend was down to a political disagreement about tariffs. Instead it was about a man suffering a brief, piercing and clearly quite painful collapse in his self-delusion.

— Emma Brockes, The Guardian

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🇨🇦💸 Ottawa’s Green Gamble: billions out the door, accountability redacted.

An investigation lid off 70+ pages of secret contracts between Ottawa and Stellantis/NextStar, exposing how Canada’s much-hyped “clean energy industrial strategy” is really being built on blank cheques and blacked-out clauses.

Here’s the reality: the federal and Ontario governments pledged up to $15 billion in production subsidies and another $500 million from the Strategic Innovation Fund to build an EV battery plant in Windsor. The promise? Jobs, security, and a made-in-Canada energy future. The truth? No guarantees.

The fine print gives Ottawa the right to claw money back if Stellantis defaults — but the key sections about Brampton’s plant and job protections are redacted. And even the job requirement — to hire 2,500 people — was watered down. The final contract only asks Stellantis to make “commercially reasonable efforts.” In other words: no binding commitment.

To make it worse, what officials sold as “tax credits” are actually direct cash payments — funneled straight to a foreign auto giant that’s now shifting production from Ontario to Illinois while Canada foots the bill.

Minister Mélanie Joly says the government may take “legal action” if Stellantis fails to keep its promises. But once billions are out the door, Ottawa’s leverage is gone. It’s another case of corporate capture disguised as climate policy — a green shell game where Canadian taxpayers take the risk, and multinationals take the reward.

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🇨🇦 Quebec’s Doctor Exodus Begins — Ontario and New Brunswick Say “Welcome.”

Within five days of Quebec’s government ramming through Bill 2 — a law forcing new performance-linked pay and silencing dissent — over 100 doctors have already started filing to practise elsewhere. Ontario alone has received 70 licence applications since Oct 23, while New Brunswick’s medical college says it’s seen ten times its normal monthly volume.

Premier Doug Ford wasted no time: “Call 1-800-Doug-Ford,” he joked, inviting Quebec doctors to cross the border. New Brunswick’s Vitalité Health Network reports a “wave” of interest from Francophone physicians seeking fairer workloads and more autonomy.

Meanwhile, Quebec’s Health Minister Christian Dubé insists doctors should “take a step back.” But they’ve already had enough. The FMOQ warns every departing GP leaves roughly 1,000 patients behind — in a province already short 2,000 family doctors. The federation of specialists has launched a lawsuit, calling the law a violation of professional and individual liberties.

What Quebec calls reform, the rest of Canada sees as opportunity — and what starts as a “policy correction” may soon turn into a full-scale brain drain.

#Quebec #Ontario #NewBrunswick

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🇨🇦🇺🇸 Trump and Carney Break the Ice After Tariff Meltdown

After a week of tariff drama and sharp words, President Donald Trump told reporters he had a “very nice conversation” with Prime Minister Mark Carney during the APEC summit in South Korea — a surprising thaw following his vow to freeze talks “for a while.”

Just days ago, Trump had accused Canada of trying to influence the U.S. Supreme Court over his tariff policy, fuming over Ontario’s ad that quoted Ronald Reagan’s 1987 warning about tariffs hurting American workers. The backlash escalated into a full-blown diplomatic rift, with Trump declaring, “We didn’t come to South Korea to see Canada!”

Yet by Thursday, tensions appeared to cool. Carney’s office confirmed a “constructive conversation” touching on shared economic and security issues. The Prime Minister had already signaled earlier in the week that Canada was “ready when appropriate” to resume trade negotiations.

Whether this marks a genuine reset or just a pause in hostilities remains to be seen, but for now, Ottawa and Washington are talking again, and that’s something.

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