Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon slammed Canada’s new round of retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. on Tuesday, saying it isn’t the way to handle the escalating trade war.
“Dollar-for-dollar tariffs are a bad strategy for Quebec SMEs (small and medium-sized businesses),” he told reporters in Montreal. “And I repeat to everyone, to all of us, that during the first wave of tariffs, several economists and experts examined the possibility of a dollar-for-dollar approach and the analysis was quite clear in that regard.
“And I remind you that we are now in a context where Quebec is bearing the brunt of the American tariffs.”
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