Ontario cabinet ministers urged to trumpet trade with US in Trump era
TORONTO — Ontario cabinet ministers have been armed with a sheet of talking points to promote Ontario trade with the United States in President Donald Trump’s protectionist era.
The sheet of Ontario-U.S. economic tidbits was done up by the Ministry of Intergovernmental Affairs, of which Premier Kathleen Wynne is the minister, and handed out to cabinet the day before Trump’s inauguration.
Economic Development Minister Brad Duguid said talk of Buy America policies and the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement is “unsettling.”
“We don’t want to be naive to the fact that there are some risks involved in that,” he said Friday. “At the same time we in Ontario are fortunate to be able to say that we should be confident going forward because we come from a position of strength.”