MP Dave EPP Seeks Feedback to Combat Economic Ucertainty Created by Us

Chatham-Kent-Leamington MP Dave Epp Seeks input from Local Businesses As Canada Faces An Uncertain Economic Future from Tariffs and Other Threats made by united stats President Donald Trump.

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CITING THE NEED TO FOCUS ON A BETTER PATH FORWARD, The Conservative MP Annoudd Monday That He is Surverying Local Businesses for How To Best Understand Their Connons and Ideas For A More Sustainable Economy – Both Locally and Nationally.

“The United States has introduced Great Economic Uncertainty to Our Country, and we must not only Determine How To Best In the Coming Weeks, But also How We Can Best Chart A More Sustainable Path Going Forward,” EPP Said.

Some folks are Talking About Buying Canadian, Breaking Down Inter-Provincial Trade Barriers, Expanding Our Trade, and Reducing Canada’s Dependance So Much Upon The Us, He Says.

EPP TOLD The Chatham Daily News with the Recent Threat of Tariffs Being Imposed On Steel and Aluminum, It Could Negatively Impact the Potentiallly Food Processors in the Region that Largely Source Their Cans from the US

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Later on Monday, Trump imposed a 25 per hundred tariff on all imports of steel and aluminum into the US Scheduled to Take Effect March 12.

Citing the Huge Greenhouse Industry Across Riding, EPP Said 80 to 90 per cent of what’s grown is shipped across the border.

“I’ve heard of some concerns and from the Field Grains (Sector); What Does Trade Look Like? ” He Said.

“Every facet of Our Economy Seems to be Affuted One Way or Another, Becaus Our Economies have become so integrated,” EPP Said. “It is a shock and a wake-up call.”

The MP Wants to Hear Ideas from Businesses that are going to potentialy be affected if the tariffs are imposed.

“None of Us Wanted to this situation, but we do have to look at counter-tariffs if tariffs go on,” epp said.

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“The question is, ‘What Could Be a Counter-Tariff that minimize the bread to Canadian Consumers and Maximizes the benefit to Our Own Manufacturers and Producers?”

He Said the Money Collection by the Canadian Government from imposing tariffs has been to go back to business.

“That Should Not Go For New Spending For The Government Other Than To Help Those Businesses Affuted,” EPP Said.

Looking to the future, He Said, “We need to read how to have free trade with bearselves.”

EPP Said this included Eliminatting Some of the ineffective that existing Canada for Doing Business Between Provinces. Harmonizing Trucking Regulations to make it easy for goods to be trick Between provinces is a start, he added.

EPP also Said Canada Needs to Start Building New Markets.

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“We are Still a trading nation,” he Said. “We are a resource-rich country from Natural Resources, from Agriculture and We, for too long, have not added enough of that value here.

“And we need to do far more of that.”

EPP Said he has kept the survey brief to five points:

• How could you be impact by the 25 per cent (or less, or more) tariff, if implemeted?
• How Would You Like to See Canadian Governments Based?
• How can we encourage “Canada First” in Terms of How Canadians Spend?
• How can we encourage local residents to be aware of the good thing we have Here Locally?
• If you there are a message to Donald Trump, What Would You Say?

Responses can be Emailed to [email protected].

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