{"id":71978,"date":"2025-02-11T08:17:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T13:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=71978"},"modified":"2025-02-12T08:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T13:06:08","slug":"steel-and-aluminum-tariffs-singh-calls-for-urgent-worker-supports-and-fightback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/11\/steel-and-aluminum-tariffs-singh-calls-for-urgent-worker-supports-and-fightback\/","title":{"rendered":"Steel and aluminum tariffs: Singh calls for urgent worker supports and fightback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh issued the following statement in response to Donald Trump&#8217;s implementation of tariffs on steel and aluminum:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>&#8220;Donald Trump has unleashed a trade war on Canada and our workers. We can&#8217;t let it go unanswered, and we can&#8217;t let working Canadians pay the price for Trump&#8217;s attack.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Workers are worried they&#8217;ll lose their job. Families are worried about how they&#8217;ll keep putting food on the table. It&#8217;s urgent that we get financial supports into the hands of impacted people.\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And there&#8217;s no faster way to end a trade attack than with a strong fightback. That&#8217;s why I want dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs in place urgently, a 100 per cent tariff on Elon Musk&#8217;s Teslas, and changes to procurement so Canada buys Canadian-made steel and aluminum for Canadian construction and manufacturing \u2013 protecting good, Canadian jobs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Canadians will stand strong and united. We will not let Donald Trump \u2013 or anyone \u2013 threaten our values, our economy or our sovereignty.&#8221; \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BUILD CANADIAN BUY CANADIAN AND SUPPORT FOR WORKERS\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Singh&#8217;s NDP has committed to a Build Canadian Buy Canadian plan to make more of what Canada needs and reduce our reliance on unreliable trading partners.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The NDP will ban American companies from all federal government procurement contracts and projects when Canadian workers can do them, until Trump removes his reckless tariffs.<\/li>\n<li>The NDP will order changes to Canada&#8217;s procurement policies to:\n<ul>\n<li>Favour Canadian companies in the bid selection process.<\/li>\n<li>Give preference to suppliers and contractors with a unionized workforce in the bid selection process.<\/li>\n<li>Increase Canadian content requirements.<\/li>\n<li>Prioritize building materials, like steel, made by Canadian workers, in all publicly funded infrastructure projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The NDP will also incentivize value-added processing in Canada, reducing the country&#8217;s reliance on exporting raw materials to the United States. Canada can increase its capacity for value-added processing of products including lumber, wheat, milk, iron, energy and critical minerals. Incentives would have strings attached\u2014creating unionized jobs for Canadians.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Singh has also called for cutting off the flow of critical minerals to the Unted States, and a 100 per cent tariff on Teslas in the event of a trade war. Elon Musk&#8217;s Tesla relies on Canada&#8217;s critical minerals like lithium and cobalt for electric vehicle batteries.<\/li>\n<li>Singh has called to support impacted workers by implementing long-needed reform of employment insurance such as:\n<ul>\n<li>Expanding Work-Share Program.<\/li>\n<li>Increasing EI replacement rate to two-thirds of insurable earnings and raise the ceiling on insurable earnings.<\/li>\n<li>Eliminating the one-week waiting period and extending EI benefits to 50 weeks nationwide.<\/li>\n<li>Implementing a uniform national qualifying threshold of 360 hours or 12 weeks of employment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh issued the following statement in response to Donald Trump&#8217;s implementation of tariffs on steel and aluminum: &#8220;Donald Trump has unleashed a trade war on Canada and our workers. We can&#8217;t let it go unanswered, and we can&#8217;t let working Canadians pay the price for Trump&#8217;s attack.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Workers are worried they&#8217;ll &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":68223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 07:23:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71984,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71978\/revisions\/71984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}