The City of Surrey has joined a number of other Canadian cities that front the United States to prepare for the threatened tariffs by US President Donald Trump.
The mayor of Surrey, Brenda Locke, said at a press conference Thursday morning that Border Mayors Alliance was aimed at keeping municipal prospects at the front and center while the national response to the prices is also underway.
The mayor of Windsor, Ontario in Ontario, designed Dilkens, presides over the Alliance and said that the group had already started to identify alternative supply chains to reduce the impact of prices.
“But no doubt, the very impact that this situation evolves could be quite amazing on our national and local economies,” said Dilkens.
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“This is why Canadian mayors of cities and cities along the Canadian American border are united as Border Mayors Alliance.”
Locke said the border cities would be affected first and the hardest by all prices.
“Surrey is of course in the face of significant risks,” she said. “Our data has revealed that more than 29% of Surrey companies have direct links with the United States for an amount of around 2.8 billion border trade per year.”
While Windsor is the automotive capital of Canada, Locke said that truckers will immediately feel the impact and that the manufacturing sector will also be hard with companies manufacturing everything, from aerospace to agriculture.
At the moment, there are about 20 border mayors in the Alliance, which in British Columbia includes Nelson and the canton of Langley.
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