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RSS Feeds`Everyone wants a piece of Ontario`: Doug Ford talks fight against `Buy America,` interprovincial trade
(The Star Books)

 
 

12 july 2019 02:55:06

 
`Everyone wants a piece of Ontario`: Doug Ford talks fight against `Buy America,` interprovincial trade
(The Star Books)
 


SASKATOON—Ontario is considering firing back at U.S. Buy American provisions with its own measures to protect companies here, Premier Doug Ford said as a meeting of provincial leaders from across Canada wrapped up Thursday.“We’re looking into that right now,” Ford said in his first one-on-one interview with the Star since taking office more than a year ago.The issue has become all the more urgent given Bombardier’s announcement that it plans to lay off half of its workforce — or 550 employees — at its Thunder Bay railcar facility.“We have to make sure we protect our interests, similar to what the Americans are doing, south of the border,” he said. “We do, right now, $390 billion (Cdn) of two-way trade — Ontario alone.”Meanwhile, Ford also promised Thursday his government would end “hallway health care” within a year in Ontario — a situation that has grown worse in recent years, with overcrowded hospitals treating patients in hallways, meeting rooms, even washrooms.Shortly after taking office, the government struck a council to improve the health-care system.Regarding trade, Ford said the country’s 13 provincial and territorial leaders, who have been in Saskatchewan since Tuesday for the annual summer meeting of the Council of the Federation, are a “large group of new premiers, and we just seem to be hitting it off — all of us. And it’s going to be a very strong voice moving the provinces forward.”The premiers are also publicly pressuring the federal government to take stronger action with the U.S. on Buy American legislation, which forces large infrastructure and airline projects that receive federal funding to have high levels of U.S. content or manufactured goods.Read more:Premiers call on federal government to fight harder against Buy America provisionsOntario and Ottawa trade blame over Bombardier layoffsG20 drops pledge to fully oppose tra ...


 
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