Quotes
[Trump] has made statements like that before when he was president and it didn’t actually amount to the closure of a border,
We believe that there is a circumstance where we can make additional investments to reassure Canadians that all of the measures necessary are in place and will continue to be in place,
We can't sit back if they're going to put tariffs on 25 per cent of the goods crossing the border, we need to go back and put 25 per cent tariffs,
What I think is important now, and the premiers spoke to this as well, is showing Canadians visibly and demonstrably the presence of law enforcement at our borders, talking about the good work that the federal policing units of the RCMP, with partners in provinces and municipalities, do,
I don't think that we're going to be able to get an exemption if we don't take seriously the real issues that have been put on the table here,
I think if we try to diminish those or say, yeah but we're not as bad as Mexico, yeah, but we have a good trade relationship, I think we'll have missed the point,
I think that diplomatic channels, albeit urgently, are perhaps the best first line of attack, if you will,
Furey said in an interview with CTV News Channel We know that other provinces, ourselves included, are working on ways to get sheriffs and drones to the border so that we can demonstrate with action that we are serious about addressing the issues that we've heard about,
Smith said in an interview with CTV News Channel Wednesday night We were very united, and we all really agreed that right now, what Canada needs is for us to work together,
I can only speak to the conversation we had."
When asked directly about Ford's criticism of the federal government's border approach, Freeland said Let's try addressing the other things. It's way too early to be talking about retaliatory tariffs,
It's a shot in the foot,
Ebrard said of Trump's proposed tariffs, which appear to violate the USMCA trade deal between Mexico, Canada and the U.S The impact on companies is huge,
I had an excellent conversation with President Donald Trump. We discussed Mexico's strategy on the migration phenomenon and I shared that caravans are not arriving at the northern border because they are being taken care of in Mexico."
Sheinbaum Pardo also posted about the conversation on X, formerly Twitter, saying in part Mexico will stop people from going to our Southern Border, effective immediately. THIS WILL GO A LONG WAY TOWARD STOPPING THE ILLEGAL INVASION OF THE USA. Thank you!!!
In a subsequent post, he said that Just had a wonderful conversation with the new President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo,
Such tariffs will, in the end, boomerang on the US in the form of higher inflation and rising interest rates,
said Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist for the Economic Outlook Group If implemented, this would spell disaster for the US auto industry and Detroit's Big Three manufacturers, all of whom import significant numbers of vehicles from Canada and Mexico, as well as Volkswagen and other European OEMs (original equipment manufacturers),
Bernstein analyst Daniel Roeska said in a note While it’s generally understood that a blanket 25 percent tariff on any vehicles or content from Mexico or Canada could be disruptive, investors under-appreciate how disruptive this could be,
they wrote in a note on Tuesday In his first term, President Trump instituted tariffs against China that created jobs, spurred investment, and resulted in no inflation,
