‘There might be some bumps’: Manitoba prepares for impacts of 2nd Trump presidency

Most Manitobans would person backed the incorrect equine successful Tuesday night’s U.S. statesmanlike race, a section pollster says.

Probe Research’s Curtis Brown said Manitobans, surveyed prior to Republican Donald Trump’s victory, overwhelmingly preferred his Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris — to the tune of 71 per cent — and astir three-quarters of those polled said they felt different Trump word would person “very negative” results for Canada.

Despite Tuesday’s result, Brown said the long-running narration betwixt the 2 countries should stay beardown careless of who’s successful complaint successful Washington, D.C. — oregon successful Ottawa.

“Canada and the U.S. person specified a heavy and enduring narration that I deliberation these things sometimes volition transcend who the premier curate oregon the president happens to beryllium astatine immoderate fixed point,” helium said.

“There whitethorn beryllium immoderate issues, determination whitethorn beryllium immoderate bumps, but successful the end, we’re neighbours and adjacent friends, truthful we’ll person to spot however it unfolds.”

The president of the Manitoba Chambers of Commerce says that narration needs to stay strong, and that the monolithic magnitude of commercialized betwixt the 2 nations has a large interaction connected the province.

“Manitoba exports adjacent to $15 cardinal worthy of goods to the States each year,” Chuck Davidson told Global Winnipeg.

“Over 71 per cent of each goods coming from Manitoba are going to the States, truthful they’re our largest trading partner.

“It’s the aforesaid coming backmost — much than $22 cardinal worthy of goods are imported into Manitoba, truthful it’s truly cardinal that we absorption connected that narration with the U.S. and marque definite that it continues to beryllium stable.”

Davidson said keeping the goods flowing crossed the borderline is essential, adjacent if immoderate of Trump’s projected policies could origin issues for Canadian businesses down the road.

“Some of the policies that Trump has talked astir — specifically protectionist policies, he’s talked astir a 10 per cent tariff crossed the committee — that’s going to interaction Manitoba businesses, truthful that’s a concern.

“But I deliberation 1 happening we bash request to instrumentality into information is that relationship.”

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Many who followed the predetermination intimately were amazed by Trump’s triumph — securing 277 electoral assemblage votes to Harris’s 224 — contempt the part connected large issues, similar termination rights, migration and the economy, successful that country.

Rick Bolin, a erstwhile Winnipegger surviving successful the U.S., told 680 CJOB’s The Start that Trump intelligibly demonstrated that helium was a campaigner who could incite change, adjacent if that wasn’t the code successful regions similar the solidly Democratic authorities of Colorado.

“I deliberation each of america this greeting are benignant of scratching our heads, wondering, ‘What conscionable happened here?'” Bolin said.

“(Trump) evidently pulled disconnected this immense occurrence … but astatine the aforesaid clip successful Colorado, we voted to enactment the extortion of abortion, on with six different states.”

Bolin said helium believes Harris dropped the shot erstwhile it came to convincing voters she was offering thing antithetic from President Joe Biden, with whom she’d served the past 4 years arsenic vice-president.

“The immense bulk of Americans judge that America is going successful the incorrect direction, and Kamala Harris did not sufficiently contiguous an accidental for change.

“She did not intelligibly articulate that 4 years of Kamala Harris would not look similar Joe Biden.”