Canada has implemented its own retaliatory measures this morning on vehicles imported from the U-S.

It comes as a fresh round of tariffs have hit the world as America’s top trade official faced pushback yesterday from lawmakers alarmed by the fallout from U-S President Donald Trump’s trade war.

U-S Trade Representative Jamieson Greer maintained that the global tariffs are getting results as he took questions from members of the Senate Finance Committee about Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs.

 

 

A new Leger poll suggests most Canadians have made up their minds about how they’ll vote, with 61 per cent of respondents saying they’ve made their final decision.  If the federal election were held today, 44 per cent of respondents said they would vote Liberal, 37 per cent for the Conservatives and just eight per cent would back the N-D-P.

 

 

On the campaign trail Tuesday, the leaders were in the west with N-D-P Leader Jagmeet Singh promising to stop house-flipping across Canada.  At a campaign stop in the Vancouver area, Liberal Leader Mark Carney laid out his plan to double the pace of construction to almost 500-thousand new homes per year.  Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to crack down on offshore tax loopholes by appointing a tax task force.

 

 

The Maritime Fishermen’s Union is calling on all federal political parties to unveil their full election platforms on fisheries now that the race is into its third week.  The group says the direct economic impact of lobster exports from the Atlantic region amounts to three-billion dollars a year.  The Maritime Fishermen’s Union represents about 13-hundred inshore fish harvesters in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

 

 

In sports, in the Maritime Junior Hockey League playoffs, the Pictou County Weeks Crushers, up 3-0 in their Eastlink South Divisional Final series, look to close it out at home tonight in Game 4 against the Truro Bearcats at 7:00pm