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Question period focused on United States tariffs on Canadian goods and Canada’s retaliatory countertariffs. Conservative members said the American tariffs, including a 50% tariff, are already hurting businesses named in their ridings, and argued that Canada’s own countertariffs raise input costs and consumer prices, wiping out profits and costing jobs; they asked the government to remove or reduce the countertariffs and to say what the total cost to Canadians will be. Government ministers, including Dominic LeBlanc, Mélanie Joly, and Steven MacKinnon, said the American tariffs are illegal and unjustified, that the countertariffs are needed to protect workers and businesses and as leverage in trade negotiations, and pointed to support available to affected businesses; they also said the Prime Minister walked away from a proposed deal this summer that would have been bad for Canada, and accused the opposition of suggesting Canada give up. One Liberal member asked, and the Finance Minister answered, a brief question about global investors coming to Canada, which the minister linked to Canada’s economic strengths.Written by AI from the debate. Updated .

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