A group of cities and settlements embracing the Canadian-US border calls for help for the help of the Federal Government of Canada and creates difficulties for the crossings of tariffs and tariff unnecessary communities.
Eight mayors of the Border Mayors Union, the alarm was alarmed at a national online news conference on Friday. Their local economy, workplaces and enterprises are at risk, especially the United States and the Tariff War came to the heels of the pandemia.
“For the last four or five years for the last four or five years, this has been the last thing that has been the last four or five years,” said Mike Bradley, Sarnian Mayor Ont. “We feel pain and we’re on the front line … so we don’t want to be behind.”
Duty-free stores ‘literal death’ face
Mayors rely on Shirason institutions as shops without tension to strengthen their economies of communities.
Border Duty Free Union (FDFA) Executive Director Barbara Barrett (FDFA), duty-free shops that have already trusted the border border, now the US President Donald Trump has threatened and applied tariffs for Canadian goods.
Dave Carlson, Emerson-Franklin Municipality Manitoba Municipality Reeve, without office in Emerson, a vital Cog in the local economy, about 675 people who are one of the largest employers. 2016 Census information..
Carlson thinks that the cross-country messaging is damaged by the union communities to “get Canadian”.
“We hope that the federal government can be later, reaching the bargaining table, and this was resolved, because it was” Do not shopping, go to the United States, “Carlson said.
“This affects many businesses, many enterprises and many society, so our hopes are that we can pass through the past.”
According to one, there are 32 duty-free shops within Canada, according to A 2024 Report By FDFA.
The report says that tax-free stores represent a total of $ 60 million border community in more than $ 60 million in the border communities with a total of about $ 35 million worth of federal, provinces and local taxes, operators a year.
Cameron Bissonnette, the owner of a shop without a second generation, Osoyoos, BC, while explaining the terrible condition of his work during the current climate. He said he lost $ 67 a day last week and said there was no operation, except for the return.
“I have not gathered a salary since last year since I did not have a salary. Now I will have to pay my staff to the point I think I can pay longer,” he said, “said Bissonette.
Wooden Jones, Woodstock Mayor Trina Jones, provincial and Ottawa should be “quick and smart” to help business in border communities before it’s too late.
