Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he supports hitting back hard with retaliatory tariffs in response to U.S.' levies on steel, aluminum and autos, but Prime Minister Mark Carney decided to adopt a more cautious approach.
“I wouldn’t call it a disagreement,” Ford told reporters Wednesday when asked if he and the prime minister are at odds after the feds announced last week that Canada would match the U.S. in granting a tariff exemption for goods deemed compliant under the continental free trade deal.
“But I just believe when they’re tariffing us 50 per cent on our steel and using Canada as a dumping ground, we have to make changes. We’re only tariffing them 25 per cent. That’s not fair.”