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L'Orignal braces for impact of hike to U.S. steel tariff
Workers and the community around a major eastern Ontario steel plant are nervously watching what the doubling of U.S. tariffs will mean for the area's economy. Ivaco Rolling Mills is a major employer in L'Orignal, Ont., a village about 90 kilometres northeast of Ottawa, that draws workers and creates spinoff business for the surrounding region. Ivaco's parent company, Heico, announced the layoffs of 140 workers in March, with about one-third of those cuts affecting the L'Orignal plant. A combination of reduced hours, furloughs, and permanent layoffs to absorb the blow of tariffs has followed, according to the union local. Eric Fournier, president of the plant's United Steelworkers union local, told CBC News on Wednesday when the tariffs were announced that there hadn't been word of any cancelled orders related to the tariff, but people are feeling the uncertainty. "We have daily phone calls or people that show up to my office asking questions [like], 'What's next? What's happening?'" he said. Workers from both sides of river Fournier estimates about 60 percent of the plant's output goes to the U.S. with the rest sold domestically. He said the company's sales teams have been working to find other buyers. "Hopefully we stay afloat for that time and the next administration will just open the gates," he said. "Mexico [and] Canada, we're not the enemy; we're the allies." If tariffs put more people out of work, the "next big job" would be around an hour's commute away, Fournier added. Christina Famili recently moved to L'Orginal with her husband and called the spike in tariffs "frightening." "If it was me, I would be very, very nervous, very upset. I don't know what they're going to do," Famili said outside the pharmacy next to the town's welcoming moose statue. Famili said the plant employs residents of the town plus people living in neighbouring communities such as Hawkesbury and Quebecers who come across the Ottawa River. While L'Orignal doesn't have a downtown strip, Highway 17 runs through the town and connects it to Ivaco and industrial and farm equipment businesses. King's Garage owner Guillaume Landriault said his business benefits from the transport trucks that drive to and from Ivaco and require repairs or inspection. He said he's also received some inquiries from Ivaco employees looking for work. "It's an important plant for sure for all the community," he said. He's confident he has other clients to keep his mechanics busy, but tariffs of 50 per cent raise serious questions. "It could affect people, the restaurants, car dealers, families. It's going to affect the country and all the areas around here." Fournier says the message he has received from the company is that they will keep calm in the face of new levies. "Tariffs were put on all sorts of goods and then they were removed again … We always try to look [ahead] a couple of days and see what really happens."
CTV News
24-05-2025
- CTV News
Bellefeuille guilty of murder, attempted murder of OPP officers
Alain Bellefeuille arrives at the courthouse in L'Orignal, Ont. on May 22, 2025. (Katie Griffin/CTV News)
CTV News
23-05-2025
- CTV News
Eastern Ontario man fined $12,500 for altering Ottawa River shoreline
An eastern Ontario man has been fined $12,500 for altering the shore along his Ottawa River property. The Ontario government says the Ontario Court of Justice heard that between May and October 2023, the owner 'conducted shoreline alterations' along his waterfront property in L'Orignal, Ont. 'These alterations consisted of filling shore lands along the shoreline which were completed without the authority of a work permit issued by the Ministry of Natural Resources, as required by the Public Lands Act,' the government said in a media release. The owner pleaded guilty to altering the shore lands of his property. A justice of the peace heard the case in L'Orignal in January 2025. 'The Ontario government is safeguarding public lands by ensuring required work permits are issued to perform shore lands work,' the government said. L'Orignal is located 88 kilometres east of downtown Ottawa.
CTV News
22-05-2025
- CTV News
Jury deliberations underway at trial for man accused of murdering OPP officer
Alain Bellefeuille arrives at the courthouse in L'Orignal, Ont. on May 22, 2025. (Katie Griffin/CTV News)
CBC
09-05-2025
- CBC
2nd juror in Bellefeuille trial dismissed after getting ride from OPP officer
Social Sharing A second juror has been dismissed from the trial of Alain Bellefeuille, this time to preserve public confidence in the justice system. After much discussion in the courtroom in L'Orignal, Ont., Friday morning and early afternoon — the day Bellefeuille's cross-examination had been scheduled — Superior Court Justice Robert Pelletier called the jury in and told them one of their party was late Friday morning and couldn't be reached by phone. Normally that wouldn't be grounds to dismiss a juror. But on this occasion, an Ontario Provincial Police officer ended up driving the juror to the courthouse in an effort to get proceedings underway as soon as possible. As well-intentioned as the officer's actions were, Pelletier noted that this trial happens to centre on the alleged murder and attempted murder of three OPP officers. "I can't imagine that the public would find that acceptable," he said of the ride. No one to blame The judge didn't think the juror was compromised by the trip in the cruiser, and he stressed that the juror, the OPP and courthouse administrative staff are not to be blamed. The difficulty, he said, was the optics of what had happened. "Justice must be done, but justice must also be seen to be done," he told court. Bellefeuille pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder at the outset of his bilingual trial in Superior Court east of Ottawa in March. It's an admitted fact that Bellefeuille killed Mueller, critically wounded Const. Marc Lauzon and wounded Const. François Gamache-Asselin when he shot at them. In question is what he was thinking and when he repeatedly fired his rifle, and what his intentions were. Bellefeuille took the stand in his own defence on Thursday. His cross-examination by assistant Crown attorney François Dulude is now expected to begin Monday.
