Toronto reviewing procurement policies as part of U.S. tariff response plan

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow says she has instructed metropolis unit to co-ordinate with national and provincial governments to respond to looming U.S. tariffs with a program that includes a reappraisal of the city’s procurement policies.

Chow says Toronto’s enactment program volition see a buy-Canadian inaugural to prioritize section goods and services.

She says the program volition besides see a reappraisal of Toronto’s procurement policies and contracts.

Chow says she is convening a squad of largest employers and labour leaders to supply proposal and assistance support sectors of the system that are astatine hazard owed to the U.S. tariffs.

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U.S. President Donald Trump signed enforcement orders to deed Canada with duties of 10 per cent connected vigor and 25 per cent connected everything other starting connected Tuesday, and Ottawa has responded with a program to instrumentality retaliatory tariffs.

Chow says she won’t fto the “senseless commercialized war” jeopardize her efforts to physique a much affordable and safer Toronto.