‘Keep us in the game’: labour, industry urge feds to mitigate impact of U.S. tariffs

Labour groups told the House International Trade Committee on Tuesday that the government should support the industry in the form of loans or loan guarantees and want assurances that laid-off employees will have access to Employment Insurance.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government haven't proposed a relief package for steel and aluminum companies and their workers. But the government is said to be mulling an import quota to prevent a flood of cheaper foreign steel imports into Canada due to the closing out of American markets.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY JOLSON LIM AND BEATRICE PAEZ

June 26, 2018

PARLIAMENT HILL—Ottawa has yet to sit down with the international union representing Canada’s steelworkers, despite increasing anxiety within the industry over the impact U.S. tariffs will have on the labour market, the House Trade Committee heard on Tuesday at a s...

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