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- Global News
Canada's counter-tariffs ‘pulled the rug out from' CUSMA, U.S. envoy says
U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra says Canada is jeopardizing the future of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) — also known as USMCA — on free trade due to Canadian counter-tariffs on certain American products. 'Canada is the country that has pulled the rug out from USMCA,' Hoekstra said in an exclusive interview with Global News on Thursday. 'They also started putting tariffs on CUSMA products … We haven't done that, but Canada has decided 'That's fair game. We will call into question CUSMA.'' Back in March, Ottawa placed a 25 per cent tariff on $29.8 billion in U.S. products, including some imports that fall under the free trade agreement such as orange juice, motorcycles and appliances. That was in response to tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump that have continued to escalate. Story continues below advertisement So far, Trump has imposed a 35 per cent tariff on all non-free trade Canadian goods, a 50 per cent levy on Canadian steel, aluminum and copper, and is threatening to bring in more tariffs on Canadian pharmaceuticals. 1:07 Retaliatory tariffs should have 'minimum impact' on Canadians, Carney says Last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney hinted at unilaterally removing some tariffs on U.S. goods if it could improve ongoing negotiations and help Canadian businesses. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Sign up for daily National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy 'We look at what we can do for our industry that's most effective. In some cases that will be to remove tariffs,' he said. Hoekstra also said personal attacks from Canadian politicians against the U.S. president are another irritant. 'Some Canadian politicians have decided that they will attack the president personally, they will attack people on his economic team, his negotiating team,' Hoekstra told Global News. Story continues below advertisement 'They will attack them personally, not on the policy, but them personally. Again, that is a Canadian decision. All we do is respond to it.' Trump has routinely attacked Canadians, spending much of the winter calling on Canada to be annexed as the 51st state and routinely referring to then-prime minister Justin Trudeau as 'governor.' 3:53 'Tariffs up, elbows down': Poilievre blasts Carney over lack of trade deals Another key irritant for Hoekstra is the Canadian government reviewing the $74-billion contract to buy 88 F-35 fighter jets from U.S. company Lockheed Martin. 'There's two countries that have been relatively harsh against the United States, and that's China and Canada,' Hoekstra said. Earlier this week, the U.S. and China extended their tariff deal deadline for another 90 days until Nov. 10. But Canada has had no pause and Hoekstra doesn't see a deal within reach soon. Story continues below advertisement 'I think on both sides, the negotiators feel that they haven't made enough progress and that there's enough significant issues out there that are going to take a lot of work,' he said. 0:42 Ford calls Trump 'probably the most disliked politician in the world in Canada' Ontario Premier Doug Ford warned last week that even if Canada signs a deal with the U.S., he is worried Trump will not honour any free trade commitments. 'At any given time, President Trump — not that he even follows the rules — he could pull the carpet out from underneath us on CUSMA tomorrow with one signature,' Ford said. Ford also warned he thinks Trump wants to renegotiate the free trade deal as soon as November, ahead of the scheduled start date of next year. Hoekstra did not rule out the U.S. pushing for earlier renegotiations. Story continues below advertisement 'Lots of things could happen in the future,' he said. 'I don't know what the decision will be. That will be the president's decision, his team's decision.' When asked by Global News last week if Canada was not responding with further retaliation to increasing U.S. tariffs because it could hurt future free trade deal renegotiations, Carney emphasized the importance of Canada preserving its North American free trade deal. 'We're very conscious that there are a couple of negotiations in sequence and the extent to which those negotiations can be brought together or inform each other that's in the interest of all parties,' he said.
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Global News
11 hours ago
- Global News
Older Canadians want fewer legal immigrants to relocate to Canada, poll finds
More Canadians over the age of 55 think fewer legal immigrants should be allowed to relocate to Canada, compared to their younger counterparts. A new poll by Research Co. asked people across the country about their perceptions on immigration and the results highlighted a generational divide. Forty-three per cent of Canadians believe immigration is having a mostly positive effect in the country, which is up one point since a similar Research Co. poll conducted in June 2024. A smaller portion of Canadians, 39 per cent, think immigration is having a mostly negative effect on the country, while 18 per cent were undecided. Among Canadians who voted in the federal election for the NDP, 59 per cent, or the Liberal Party, 55 per cent, believe immigration is having a positive effect on Canada but among those who voted Conservative, only 27 per cent felt that way. Story continues below advertisement Residents of different provinces also had varying views on immigration. In B.C., 52 per cent of those polled said it has been mostly positive for Canada, but only 49 per cent said that in Quebec, 44 per cent in Alberta, 40 per cent in Ontario, 35 per cent in Saskatchewan and Manitoba and only 30 per cent in Atlantic Canada. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Sign up for daily National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy Forty one per cent of those asked, or two-in-five Canadians, would like to see a decrease in the number of legal immigrants who are allowed to relocate to Canada, while 34 per cent, or just over one-third, would maintain the current levels. Sixteen per cent said they would increase immigration levels. 0:39 Manitoba government poll suggests concerns over health care, crime and immigration People between the ages of 35 and 54 were the second age group to support a decrease in immigration levels, with 40 per cent saying they were in favour of it, however, only 30 per cent of those aged between 18 to 34 said they were in favour. Story continues below advertisement 'By a seven-to-one margin, Canadians aged 55 and over prefer a decrease in legal immigration levels over an increase,' Mario Canseco, president of Research Co., said in a statement. 'The gap is significantly closer among their younger counterparts.' Half of Canadians of European descent ( 50 per cent) would like to reduce legal immigration to Canada. The proportions are lower among Canadians whose ancestry is Indigenous (36 per cent), South Asian (28 per cent) and East Asian (26 per cent). When it came to the concept of Canada as a 'melting pot,' a slightly larger proportion, 44 per cent, favoured the idea that immigrants assimilate and blend into Canadian society. About 40 per cent endorsed the mosaic where cultural differences within Canadian society are valuable and preserved. Methodology: Results are based on an online study conducted from July 26 to July 28, 2025, among 1,000 adults in Canada. The data has been statistically weighted according to Canadian census figures for age, gender and region in Canada. The margin of error—which measures sample variability—is +/- 3.1 percentage points, nineteen times out of twenty.
