{"id":29883,"date":"2025-04-07T16:23:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T23:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ontario-offers-11-billion-in-relief-to-businesses-stung-by-u-s-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T16:23:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T23:23:05","slug":"ontario-offers-11-billion-in-relief-to-businesses-stung-by-u-s-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ontario-offers-11-billion-in-relief-to-businesses-stung-by-u-s-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario offers $11 billion in relief to businesses stung by U.S. tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 The Ontario government says it will provide about $11 billion in relief and support for businesses stung by U.S. tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Doug Ford says the measures will help workers and businesses deal with U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cattacks on Ontario\u2019s economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The government says it will defer select provincially administered taxes for six months from April 1 to Oct. 1, which will save businesses about $9 billion.<\/p>\n<p>It says it will also provide a $2 billion rebate for employers through the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board to help keep workers on the job.<\/p>\n<p>Ford said last week he was relieved to see Canada is not facing any of Trump\u2019s new \u201creciprocal\u201d tariffs, which were slapped on many other countries around the world.<\/p>\n<p>But Ford said he is still concerned about the province\u2019s auto sector, which is facing 25 per cent duties on automobile imports into the U.S.<\/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\/economic\/2025\/04\/breaking-ontario-offers-11-billion-in-relief-to-businesses-stung-by-u-s-tariffs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] TORONTO \u2014 The Ontario government says it will provide about $11 billion in relief and support for businesses stung &#8230; <a title=\"Ontario offers $11 billion in relief to businesses stung by U.S. tariffs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ontario-offers-11-billion-in-relief-to-businesses-stung-by-u-s-tariffs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ontario offers $11 billion in relief to businesses stung by U.S. tariffs\">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-29883","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\/29883","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=29883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}