Beauce does not want to be forgotten in the negotiations between Canada and the United States, when a trade war could be launched on Monday, with the return of Donald Trump to the White House. At the end of the first meeting of the Beauce-USA regional economic unit, local elected officials agreed to do everything to make Canadian decision-makers aware of the economic particularities of the region.
More than 50% of Beauce companies export to the United States
relates Samuel Poulin, CAQ deputy in Beauce-Sud.
Beauce has numerous head offices in several sectors, wood, food, steel
he lists, alluding to the different sectors that could be targeted by American tariffs.
At the end of the first meeting of the Beauce-USA regional economic unit, Friday morning, the members agreed to do everything to make Canadian decision-makers aware of the economic particularities of the region.
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Samuel Poulin, CAQ MP in Beauce-Sud
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The role of the cell is to explain it well to the negotiators, to explain it well to our government entities and to be able to position the region in the event of the implementation of tariffs.
Government assistance
The Legault government has already promised to help businesses that will suffer from American tariffs. MP Samuel Poulin therefore wishes to identify businesses in the region and draw up a more precise economic portrait of the different sectors of activity.
-If we already have the most real picture possible of exports and the needs they have upstream, we will be able to intervene more quickly if tariffs are implemented.
hopes the Beauceron elected official.
The federal MP for Beauce, Richard Lehoux, believes that this is a important exercise
as the inauguration of the new American president approaches. All workers who are in different fields of activity in Beauce could be impacted by [les tarifs]
warns the elected conservative.
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Richard Lehoux, the Conservative MP for Beauce. (Archive photo)
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I have always said it, I am the representative of Beauce in Ottawa, so I will report to Ottawa what is happening here and what impacts it has.
The Beauce-USA economic unit brings together elected officials from the three levels of government and the leaders of economic organizations in the region. Meetings are scheduled every two weeks, or more regularly if the need arises.
With information from Camille Carpentier
