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Calgary Herald
a day ago
- Business
- Calgary Herald
Canadians' support for counter-tariffs dips, but still strong as trade war persists
Canadians continue to support retaliating against United States President Donald Trump's wave of tariffs, but their fervour has waned as the trade war wears on. Article content Seven in 10 Canadians still favour counter-tariffs even if they increase the cost of goods imported from the U.S., according to a poll conducted by Nanos Research Group for Bloomberg News. That's down from almost eight in 10 in January. Article content Article content Atlantic Canada was the region that most favoured counter-tariffs, with 81 per cent expressing some form of support. The Prairies expressed the least support (67 per cent). Article content The Prairie provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta recently said they would resume buying and distributing American alcohol to retailers, months after they halted purchases in response to Trump's tariffs. U.S. booze remains banned from government-store shelves in many other provinces, including Ontario. Article content Article content Prime Minister Mark Carney's government scaled back its retaliatory tariffs in April, leaving about 70 per cent of its counter-measures in place. That means Canada currently has 25 per cent levies on about $42 billion in imports from the U.S., plus some tariffs on automobiles. Article content Article content Carney held off on retaliating further in response to Trump's doubling of tariffs on steel and aluminum last week. The prime minister has said he sees progress in trade talks between the U.S. and Canada, but new counter-measures remain an option. Article content Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem said last week that the levies aren't yet having a significant impact on prices. 'The retaliatory tariffs put in place, that is not yet in the consumer price index data that we have,' Macklem said. 'You will see that start to come in the months ahead.' Article content
Calgary Herald
15-05-2025
- Business
- Calgary Herald
Eighty per cent of Canadians believe old U.S. relationship ‘over': poll
Article content An overwhelming majority of Canadians believe the country's relationship with the US has permanently changed, as President Donald Trump's tariffs and sovereignty threats spark widespread fury in the northern nation. Article content Article content Nearly 80 per cent of respondents to a poll by Nanos Research Group for Bloomberg News agreed with the statement: 'The old relationship we had with the United States, based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation, is over.' Article content Article content That's a comment Prime Minister Mark Carney made during Canada's election campaign and repeated many times. But the poll did not attribute the remark to him to avoid conflating respondents' views of the prime minister with their feelings about the US relationship. Article content Article content The survey suggests that Carney, who rode a wave of anti-Trump sentiment to win the April 28 election, will get strong support for his plans to deepen alliances in Europe and Asia and bolster domestic activity to reduce Canada's reliance on the US. Decoupling from the US is nearly impossible, however — about three-quarters of Canada's exports head to its southern neighbor. Article content Over the past six months, Trump's tariffs and taunts about making Canada the 51st state have markedly shifted views and behaviors of Canadians. Anxiety about Trump's threats revived support for Carney's Liberals, who were unpopular under his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, and helped them win a fourth term. At the same time, Canadians are increasingly forgoing US vacations and American products in a show of patriotism. Article content Three-quarters of Canadians now say they're less likely to purchase US-made goods, the survey showed. That's a 10 percentage-point jump from December, before US tariffs were imposed on Canadian products. That may help explain a decline in Canada's imports from the US in March, a period where inbound shipments from other countries were up. Article content
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Four in Five Canadians Believe Old US Relationship Is ‘Over,' Poll Says
(Bloomberg) -- An overwhelming majority of Canadians believe the country's relationship with the US has permanently changed, as President Donald Trump's tariffs and sovereignty threats spark widespread fury in the northern nation. As Coastline Erodes, One California City Considers 'Retreat Now' How a Highway Became San Francisco's Newest Park Power-Hungry Data Centers Are Warming Homes in the Nordics Maryland's Credit Rating Gets Downgraded as Governor Blames Trump NYC Commuters Brace for Chaos as NJ Transit Strike Looms Nearly 80% of respondents to a poll by Nanos Research Group for Bloomberg News agreed with the statement: 'The old relationship we had with the United States, based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation, is over.' That's a comment Prime Minister Mark Carney made during Canada's election campaign and repeated many times. But the poll did not attribute the remark to him to avoid conflating respondents' views of the prime minister with their feelings about the US relationship. The survey suggests that Carney, who rode a wave of anti-Trump sentiment to win the April 28 election, will get strong support for his plans to deepen alliances in Europe and Asia and bolster domestic activity to reduce Canada's reliance on the US. Decoupling from the US is nearly impossible, however — about three-quarters of Canada's exports head to its southern neighbor. Over the past six months, Trump's tariffs and taunts about making Canada the 51st state have markedly shifted views and behaviors of Canadians. Anxiety about Trump's threats revived support for Carney's Liberals, who were unpopular under his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, and helped them win a fourth term. At the same time, Canadians are increasingly forgoing US vacations and American products in a show of patriotism. Three-quarters of Canadians now say they're less likely to purchase US-made goods, the survey showed. That's a 10 percentage-point jump from December, before US tariffs were imposed on Canadian products. That may help explain a decline in Canada's imports from the US in March, a period where inbound shipments from other countries were up. The latest Nanos survey of 1,055 Canadians was conducted by phone and online between May 5 and 8, covering a period that included a Trump-Carney meeting at the White House. It's considered accurate within 3 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. Cartoon Network's Last Gasp DeepSeek's 'Tech Madman' Founder Is Threatening US Dominance in AI Race Why Obesity Drugs Are Getting Cheaper — and Also More Expensive As Nuclear Power Makes a Comeback, South Korea Emerges a Winner Trump Has Already Ruined Christmas ©2025 Bloomberg L.P. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Bloomberg
15-05-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Four in Five Canadians Believe Old US Relationship Is ‘Over,' Poll Says
An overwhelming majority of Canadians believe the country's relationship with the US has permanently changed, as President Donald Trump's tariffs and sovereignty threats spark widespread fury in the northern nation. Nearly 80% of respondents to a poll by Nanos Research Group for Bloomberg News agreed with the statement: 'The old relationship we had with the United States, based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation, is over.'
South China Morning Post
15-02-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Trump's threats and 51st state taunts reset race to lead Canada
For over a year, Canada's Conservative Party seemed on track to win a decisive victory in the next election as Justin Trudeau's governing coalition crumbled. Now, nothing seems guaranteed – and the reason is Donald Trump. The national mood has changed and with it the landscape for this year's vote. Trudeau's Liberal Party is making gains in public opinion surveys, even though its members have not chosen his successor yet. Polls by Nanos Research Group and Leger Marketing show the Conservatives eight or nine points ahead of the Liberals, a significant shift from previous leads of as much as 27 points. A separate poll released this week by Abacus Data gives the Conservatives a much wider edge, but it also found that voters most worried about Trump tend to believe the Liberals are best to handle him. The US president has shocked Canada with threats to use 'economic force', including tariffs, as a strategy to coerce the country into becoming a US state. Trump's repeated taunts have upended decades of assumptions about national security and created seething resentment across Canada, realigning the country's politics in the process. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre built his profile by relentlessly targeting Trudeau as the culprit for Canadians' affordability struggles, using slogans like 'Axe the Tax', a criticism of the prime minister's unpopular carbon tax. Now that Trudeau is leaving and Canadians face an alarming threat from their southern neighbour, the Conservatives are rebranding. Poilievre is planning a major speech Saturday with a nationalist motto – 'Canada First' – that mimics Trump's own.
