Canada must respond to tariffs with urgency and ambition
Across multiple media outlets, Goldy Hyder and Robert Asselin reacted to the United States’ tariffs on Canada, emphasizing the need to act with ambition and urgency.
“[The tariffs] serve as a wake up call in many ways to not just Canadian businesses, and the government but to Canadians more broadly to galvanize us to create a sense of urgency and ambition for our country where we do need to diversify and hedge a lot better than we have in the last 150 years.”
Goldy Hyder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Business Council of Canada
“Canadians need to work together to build up the trade arteries that we’ve really only created north and south and that’s to our own detriment and today is proof of that. We need to diversify that.”
Goldy Hyder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Business Council of Canada
“No one wins in a trade war.”
Goldy Hyder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Business Council of Canada
“The tariffs imposed today by the Trump Administration will hurt workers, farmers and families across North America – especially those in the United States.”
Goldy Hyder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Business Council of Canada
“It’s important to get to a place where we make the case that trade is good for Canada, good for America, good for Mexico”
Goldy Hyder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Business Council of Canada
“We’re going to see the return of inflation. Cost of groceries, cost of vegetables, cost of juices and then of course we all know how sensitive Americans are to the price of gasoline — they’re going to feel this.”
Goldy Hyder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Business Council of Canada
«C’est peut-être le coup de fouet qu’on avait besoin pour se mettre à la tâche et de rendre notre économie plus productive. C’est sûr que les secousses dans un an, deux ans, seraient extrêmement sévères. Est-ce que ça serait fatal? Non»
Robert Asselin, Senior Vice President, Business Council of Canada
