Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. June 19th, 2025
June 19, 2025
Canada’s Prime Minister had plenty of information to dish out this afternoon, as the feds defended their aggressive approach to push Bill C-5 forward. The secondary nugget is all about the economy, and Canada’s complicated relationship with the United States. In a nutshell, if the two sides can’t reach a trade deal by July 21st, Mark Carney has a series of countermeasures up his sleeve. They are locked, loaded, and ready to fire if the stalemate continues. As for the severity of Canada’s retaliation on American tariffs, that all depends on how next month’s negotiations play out. If a potential deal isn’t in Canada’s best interest, Carney vows to reject it. Is this tough-but-fair approach tough enough? CTV political analyst and former NDP leader Tom Mulcair joins Kristy Cameron to present his opinions. On the lighter side of today’s news cycle, The Royal’s Mental Health Centre has received a $1.9 million grant from Brain Canada. This allows the facility to launch a one-of-a-kind brain imaging platform, a game-changing device that our country has never seen before. Here to explain further is Dr. Florence Dzierszinski, the President and CEO of The Royal’s Research Institute.
Unpublished Newswire
For the hundreds of Canadian steelworkers who lost their jobs this year amid President Donald Trump’s trade war, talk of reaching a trade deal between Canada and the U.S. is coming too little, too late.
For Trump, the effects — driving down imports, boosting the U.S. steel industry and winning concessions from Canada — seem to be getting him what he wants.
Initially faced with a 25 per cent tariff on exports to the U.S., which ballooned to 50 per cent in June,
Canadian steel is desperate for a resolution.
Trump imposed the levies under
Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act,...
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