Ontario Premier Doug Ford embarked on a marathon of interviews with U.S. media earlier this week to promote the importance of trade between Canada and its southern neighbour in the hopes it may convince Donald Trump to back off his tariff threats.

Picture a schoolyard. Donald Trump is there. He’s the schoolyard bully. He calls the other kids names, he threatens them, he pushes them around. Sometimes, he even hits them, for no apparent reason. Other kids are in the playground.

In response to Trump’s plan to slap 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods, Ford warned the country’s most populous province was prepared to retaliate, provoking a response from the incoming president.

There’s growing concern that potential tariffs on Canadian imports to the U.S. could be an existential threat to the country’s recovering automotive industry.

Doug Ford says he wants to meet with Donald Trump to talk trade as the incoming U.S. president threatens major tariffs on Canadian imports. The Ontario Premier has been making the rounds on U.S ...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has a message for Mexico as the threat of tariffs by incoming president Donald Trump hangs over both sides of the U.S. border.

Doug Ford says Canada and the United States need to "make a deal" as President-Elect Donald Trump's threats of sweeping tariffs continues to loom over the two countries.

The premier of Canada’s most populous province says President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to impose sweeping 25% tariffs on all Canadian products would be a “disaster” that would hurt U.S. stock markets.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford argued Donald Trump's tariff threat risks destabilizing a vital trading relationship.

And when he spoke, Ford couldn’t have said what he had to say more directly. Pull no punches would be the apt description. Ford wants Trump to know Ontario, Canada’s largest province, will go to the wall against a 25 per cent tariff charge on Canadian goods heading stateside. Ford says he will “go to the full extent” if necessary.

The call comes from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith whose province has rejected the idea of using oil and gas exports as a bargaining chip.

Ontario would be prepared to cut off electricity exports to the United States over Donald Trump’s tariff threat, Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday after a meeting between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the provinces and territories.