Prices, tourism, and a talented drain.
Five American governors of the Northeast and six Canadian Ministers and Ministers met on Massachusetts State House on Monday to tackle taxes on imports, also known as prices, as well as the way some workers flee the United States while their federal research funding is reduced or withdrawn, and the drop in visitors coming from the border in the middle of the president The 51st American state.
Governor Maura Healey welcomed his counterparts within the Massachusetts State House library, claiming that the rally was born from a meeting she had with Maine Governor Janet Mills, who traces her ancestry in Nova Scotia, after Trump announced a new strategy tariff has the United States as his biggest trading partner,, And now faces American prices on its goods which should be transmitted to American consumers.
On Monday, governors and ministers were an attempt to demonstrate unity, to propose a message that the Canadian provinces and the northeast states of the United States were “open to business” with each other and see China as the common enemy, despite all that the Trump administration says to Washington.
The prices already affect the Maine craft brewing industry, Mills said, for example, noting that aluminum and packaging documents used by the industry come from Canada.
But they also recognized as the leaders of states and provinces, they have more limited powers than federal officials. The meeting came as leaders of the G7 countries – the United States, Canada, Italy, France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom – summoned to Alberta. Healey and his counterparts, who also included the governors of New York and Vermont, expressed the hope that Commites and Commercial Transactions could emerge from this G7 collection.
But there was still daylight between the two camps. After Healey noted that the number of tourism in the northeast states is down between 20 and 60%, a journalist asked Canadian officials at the meeting if they would encourage their residents to come to America and spend money this summer, or ask people to send a message to Trump while keeping their tourist dollars outside the American economy.
Canadian officials have dismantled. Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford presented his province, saying that it was twice the size of Texas. But he added: “We have to pass through it, and we are stronger together. And keep an eye on China. They laugh. They are sitting laughing.”
New Brunswick Prime Minister Susan Holt said that Americans must relay Trump that prices and annexes are harmful to the American economy. “I can’t tell Canadians to come and visit the United States right now,” she said. “I’m going to tell them to go see my neighbors in Nova Scotia, I’m going to tell them to spend time at home because the relationship was challenged by leadership. We have to return to normal. This is what we all want. ”
Holt also said that Canada considers the situation as an opportunity to attract the “best” research and development workers because they face federal funding reductions in the United States. “Perhaps we will borrow some of the people, then we will give them back and strengthen the type of connected partnerships between our research organizations that will pass to the test of time,” she said.
Rhode Governor Daniel McKee said that a larger group of governors and ministries should be summoned. “This dialogue today has been very revealing to me. What has been said about our colleagues here in Canada, we have to listen,” he said. He then referred to Trump without saying his name, adding: “This rhetoric that takes place, creating a division must stop. A meeting as this helps start this message, but it must continue to occur. ”