The British Columbia Government forms a new cabinet committee to act as a “daily war room” that meets the proposed American rates.
US President Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% price On all Canadian goods on Saturday, without proof – a flood of drugs and migrants from the northern border.
In a press release on Wednesday, first David Eby The Minister of Municipal Affairs announced, Ravi Kahlon, the Minister of Municipal Affairs will direct the Committee, responsible for coordinating a “entire government” price response.
“This threat does not disappear as soon as this president is in power,” said Eby.
“Each minister has an important role to play in the response.”
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The Committee will include the jobs of British Columbia, finance, energy, agriculture, forests, mining, the environment and the ministers of land, land and resources, as well as that the Minister of State for Trade.
“We did not ask for this fight, but British Columbia will not be intimidated,” said Kahlon. “My colleagues and I will work on the shoulder with workers, business and community leaders to meet this moment.”
On Tuesday, Eby warned that the fallout from American prices could compete with the economic impact of the “great recession” of 2008, while the Minister of Finance Brenda Bailey warned against an economic impact of $ 69 billion during of the next three years.
British Columbia Conservative Chief John Rustad
“We have to do our best to avoid this, the damage that will be caused to British Columbia that the damage that will be caused to workers, families, communities, are very important,” he said.
“It is not a question of folding the knee (in the United States), it is a question of facing the problems and of being a good neighbor, dealing with fentanyl, dealing with our ports.”
Rustad argued that if British Columbia took action on Trump’s complaints and the president decided anyway to impose prices, at least the province would have done everything she could to try to protect the economy.
Eby previously said that the province could lead British Columbia alcohol stores to stop importing American alcohol and refer to Florida Orange Juice and Harley Davidson Motorcycles as American products to target.
In addition to any commercial reprisal measures, the province says that it responds to the threat by accelerating project approvals in Colombia
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