{"id":142196,"date":"2026-09-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/refletnews.ca\/?p=142196"},"modified":"2026-09-03T11:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:01:29","slug":"prescott-and-russell-will-seek-its-share-of-counter-tariff-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refletnews.ca\/en\/news\/prescott-and-russell-will-seek-its-share-of-counter-tariff-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Prescott and Russell will seek its share of counter-tariff aid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The federal government has a new financial aid program to help businesses and municipalities that get hurt by President Trump\u2019s new tariffs against Canada and Prescott and Russell will seek its share of that assistance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials with the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de d\u00e9veloppement communautaire de Prescott and Russell Community Development Corporation (SDCPRCDC) presented the United Counties of Prescott and Russell council (UCPR) on August 26 with a progress report on the success so far of the five-year regional Economic Development Strategy and Action Plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That included a notice to council that the PRCDC intends to pursue whatever funding support may be available soon from the federal government as part of its new financial aid program to help businesses and communities suffering from the new 50-per-cent tariffs that President Donald Trump plans to impose on Canadian exports to the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur team is already working on those initiatives to make sure Prescott and Russell gets its fair share,\u201d said John Candie, PRCDC executive director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The day before the federal finance department announced a two-part plan to deal with President Trump\u2019s threat to impose new tariffs on Canadian imports to the U.S. after the failure of last month\u2019s negotiations on a new trade agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prime Minister Mark Carney recalled the Canada\u2019s negotiation team just before midnight August 21, the last day of a three-day extension on the August 19 deadline that Trump had set for implementing a new series of tariffs on Canadian goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prime minister announced later that the U.S. negotiating team introduced a series of new terms \u201cat the last minute\u201d that were unacceptable because they threatened Canadian sovereignty over its own trade and economic policies and also against federal bilingual culture standards that support and protect the French language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now the federal government plans to enact its own series of \u201cdollar for dollar\u201d counter-tariffs, ranging from 15, 25, and 50 per cent on U.S. products imported into Canada. 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