Trumps tariff threat a wakeup call, B.C. business group warns [Video]

U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump’s promise of massive new tariffs on Canadian products is “really concerning” and risks “serious consequences” to B.C.’s economy, according to a leading voice in the business community.

On Monday, Trump vowed to slap a 25 per cent tariff on all products coming from Canada and Mexico on his first day back in office.

Trump said the tariffs would remain in place until the two countries “stop drugs, in particular fentanyl, and people from illegally crossing the borders.”

“It might be bluster and it might be a negotiating tactic, but regardless it is a shot across the bow to Canada and it should be a wakeup call to Canada,” Greater Vancouver Board of Trade president Bridgitte Anderson told Global News.

Anderson said leaders in British Columbia need to join with their counterparts in every province and the federal government on a “one Team Canada” approach to dealing with the U.S.

…