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Publication Date: June 2, 2025 - 18:03
Hour 4 of Ottawa Now for Mon. June 2nd, 2025
June 2, 2025
Following today’s First Ministers Meeting in Saskatoon, CTV’s Vassy Kapelos caught up with Internal Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland. Guest host Chris Holski dissects some of that conversation in Hour 4. Plus, we deliver the latest breaking news as it happens, right here on CFRA’s Ottawa Now.
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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