Provincial release:

PREMIER’S OFFICE–Statement on U.S. Tariffs

Canada’s negotiating team tried to secure a deal for Canadians, which I’ve forcefully and vocally supported. 

I continue to stand ready to support and work with the Prime Minister.  We will work together to do everything possible to protect the massive number of Nova Scotian and Canadian families, workers and businesses that have now been added to the large list of those directly impacted by President Trump’s devastating tariffs. 

It’s clear that we cannot trust or rely on the United States as we once did. This reality must make us more determined than ever to make Nova Scotia and Canada stronger.  For Nova Scotia that means developing our own energy, developing our own natural resources and finding new markets for Nova Scotian goods and services. 

We have tremendous opportunities and I am fully committed to seizing them.

Building up Nova Scotia is the only true path to protecting our future. Potential doesn’t build hospitals and roads. Turning potential into reality does. 

This is our time to find the common ground necessary to build. This is how we make ourselves stronger and protect our future. 

Let’s make it happen.

Let’s go Team Canada!