OTTAWA –
Parliament closes in on its eighth week of gridlock over a privilege movement, as Canada Put up staff are on strike and calls emerge to exclude Mexico from upcoming commerce talks.
Whereas query interval has continued, different home enterprise is on maintain as a result of a Conservative privilege movement calling on the federal government to show over unredacted paperwork on a inexperienced expertise fund.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and a few members of his cupboard aren’t in Ottawa for the primary half of the week, as they attend the G20 assembly in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
On the Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation assembly in Lima, Peru this weekend, International Affairs Minister Melanie Joly mentioned many countries have been approaching Canada on the way to work with the incoming Donald Trump administration in america.
The Canada-U.S.-Mexico free commerce settlement signed in the course of the first Trump presidency is up for evaluation in 2026, and the premiers of Ontario and Alberta say Canada ought to oust Mexico from the deal over not matching Canadian and American tariffs on imports like electrical automobiles. Trudeau says Mexico is a “stable associate,” however acknowledged the issues.
In the meantime again in Canada, Canada Put up staff hit the picket line Friday, and Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon says that he’s ruling out early intervention for now, although he lately ordered binding arbitration in current job motion at ports in Montreal and British Columbia.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Nov. 18, 2024
