Surrey joins alliance with Canadian border mayors as Trump tariff threat looms

The City of Surrey has joined a fig of different Canadian cities that borderline the United States to hole for U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs.

Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke said astatine a property league connected Thursday greeting that the Border Mayors Alliance aims to support municipal perspectives beforehand and centre arsenic the nationalist effect to the tariffs is besides underway.

The politician of Windsor, Ont., Drew Dilkens, chairs the confederation and said the radical has already begun identifying alternate proviso chains to lessen the interaction of the tariffs.

“But marque nary doubt, the interaction adjacent arsenic this concern evolves could beryllium rather staggering connected our nationalist and section economies,” Dilkens said.

“That’s wherefore Canadian mayors of cities and towns on the Canada-U.S. borderline are agreed arsenic the Border Mayors Alliance.”

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Locke said borderline cities would beryllium deed archetypal and hardest by immoderate tariffs.

“Surrey of people faces important risks,” she said. “Our information revealed implicit 29 per cent of Surrey businesses person nonstop ties with the U.S. amounting successful astir 2.8 cardinal successful borderline commerce annually.”

While Windsor is the automotive superior of Canada, Locke said truckers volition consciousness the interaction immediately, and the manufacturing assemblage volition besides beryllium deed hard with companies manufacturing everything from aerospace to agriculture.

Right present determination are astir 20 borderline mayors successful the alliance, which successful B.C. includes Nelson and the Township of Langley.