{"id":28642,"date":"2025-01-19T00:14:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T08:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/trudeau-names-ex-premiers-business-and-union-reps-to-canada-u-s-relations-council\/"},"modified":"2025-01-19T00:14:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T08:14:29","slug":"trudeau-names-ex-premiers-business-and-union-reps-to-canada-u-s-relations-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/trudeau-names-ex-premiers-business-and-union-reps-to-canada-u-s-relations-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Trudeau names ex-premiers, business and union reps to Canada-U.S. relations council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has formed a new Canada-U.S. relations council to support the federal government as it deals with the incoming Trump administration\u2019s vow to impose tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>The 18 members of the council include Steve Verheul, who was Canada\u2019s chief trade negotiator during the renegotiation of NAFTA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Joining him on the council are former premiers Jean Charest, Rachel Notley and Stephen McNeil.<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s Ambassador to the United States Kirsten Hillman, former ambassador David MacNaughton and Jody Thomas, the prime minister\u2019s former national security adviser, are also joining the council.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The group includes representatives from the automotive industry, the nuclear power sector, agriculture and the labour movement.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian imports when he takes office next week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a92025 The Canadian Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/government\/2025\/01\/trudeau-names-ex-premiers-business-and-union-reps-to-canada-u-s-relations-council\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] OTTAWA \u2014 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has formed a new Canada-U.S. relations council to support the federal government as &#8230; <a title=\"Trudeau names ex-premiers, business and union reps to Canada-U.S. relations council\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/trudeau-names-ex-premiers-business-and-union-reps-to-canada-u-s-relations-council\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trudeau names ex-premiers, business and union reps to Canada-U.S. relations council\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-28642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}