OTTAWA– Parliament surrounds its eighth week of gridlock over a chance motion, as Canada Post employees are on strike and calls come up to depart out Mexico from upcoming occupation talks.
While concern period has truly proceeded, numerous different residence firm will get on maintain due to a Conservative profit motion getting in contact with the federal authorities at hand over unredacted information on an environment-friendly fashionable know-how fund.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and a few individuals of his cabinet aren’t in Ottawa for the preliminary fifty p.c of the week, as they take part within the G20 convention in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
At the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation convention in Lima, Peru this weekend break, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly claimed a number of nations have truly been coming near Canada on simply easy methods to collaborate with the inbound Donald Trump administration within the United States.
The Canada- UNITED STATE-Mexico open market association licensed all through the preliminary Trump presidency is up for analysis in 2026, and the premiers of Ontario and Alberta declare Canada should oust Mexico from the supply over not matching Canadian and American tolls on imports like electrical automobiles. Trudeau states Mexico is a “solid partner,” nonetheless acknowledged the problems.
Meanwhile again in Canada, Canada Post staff struck the picket line Friday, and Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon states that he’s dismissing early therapy within the meantime, although he only in the near past bought binding mediation in present work exercise at ports in Montreal and British Columbia.
This report by The Canadian Press was preliminary releasedNov 18, 2024
David Baxter, The Canadian Press
