Quebec, French language and Trade Office
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The US is targeting Quebec’s controversial French-language law as a barrier to trade, a move that may further complicate Canada’s decisions in responding to President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
From Bloomberg
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney vowed to respond with retaliatory tariffs if Trump slaps additional levies on Canadian goods as part of Wednesday's expected tariff announcement.
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Quebec is now the only province in Canada that hasn't abandoned carbon pricing, choosing to maintain its 2013 cap-and-trade system. Critics of carbon pricing see this as an opportunity to pressure the provincial government to get rid of it.
Through amendments tabled Tuesday to beef up a bill it tabled last year, the Coalition Avenir Québec government wants to crack down on physicians going back and forth between the public and private health systems.
As the U.S. signals it may no longer be willing to protect Canada or the EU, Legault said in Germany that several Quebec sectors could contribute to Europe's rearmament effort.
The Bloc Québécois leader is accusing the United States of asking Quebec to “sacrifice” its French language in order to do business with the Americans. Yves-François Blanchet was reacting Tuesday to an American trade document on foreign trade barriers that listed Quebec’s Bill 96 – the province’s 2022 language reform – as a technical barrier
Carney clarified his position regarding the 2022 language law reform known as Bill 96. This law notably introduced stricter language requirements for businesses, imposed limitations on English junior college enrolment,
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Workers in 400 early childhood centres, known as CPEs, members of unions affiliated with the CSN, had been given a new mandate to take pressure tactics that could go as far as an unlimited general strike.
The U.S. has listed Quebec’s contentious French-language law as a non-tariff trade barrier, a day before President Trump is set to unveil broad tariffs on trading partners. The law, introduced in 2022,
Quebec’s Minister of Finance, Eric Girard, tabled Quebec’s 2025-2026 Budget. This year’s budget, titled For a Strong Québec,
Quebec, Canada’s second-largest province, forecast a staggering C$13.6 billion deficit next fiscal year, and warned that the budgetary outlook depends on the duration and severity of the trade war with the US.