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U.S. President Donald Trump announced Saturday morning that he is raising his new global tariffs to 15 per cent from 10 per cent.

Trump first unveiled the new import levy on Friday, following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that outlawed his initial tariff program. He said Saturday’s increase would take effect immediately, describing the new rate as “fully allowed” and “legally tested.”

In a social media post, Trump called the Supreme Court decision “ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American.” He also claimed his new tariffs are based on “thorough, detailed and complete review” of the court’s decision, and accused trade partners of “‘ripping’ the U.S. off for decades, without retribution (until I came along!).”

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The new tariff, which lasts 150 days, starts Tuesday.

Trump’s announcement follows Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that he overstepped his presidential authority by imposing tariffs on Canada, Mexico and other countries under emergency powers.

Trump is pushing back against that decision, saying his administration is developing alternative processes for imposing tariffs, a cornerstone of his economic policy.

“During the next short number of months, the Trump Administration will determine and issue the new and legally permissible Tariffs, which will continue our extraordinarily successful process of Making America Great Again,” he said on social media.

The White House has also said the new tariff will not apply to goods compliant with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on free trade (CUSMA), which is expected to be reviewed later this year.

Trump also said other industry-specific tariffs, including those targeting steel, aluminum, automobiles and lumber, remain unaffected by the court’s decision.

More to come.

– With files from Global News’ Ariel Rabinovitch and Sean Boynton

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The majority of Canadian exports will remain exempted from Donald Trump’s new 10 per cent global levy, as the U.S. president pivots after the Supreme Court dealt a blow to his plans to realign global trade.

A fact sheet from the White House said the latest tariff will not hit goods compliant under the Canada-U.S.-Mexico agreement on trade, known as CUSMA.

The duty will also not be applied on top of sector-specific tariffs like steel, aluminum and automobiles.

Trump signed an executive order Friday to enact the worldwide tariff beginning on Tuesday using Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act. That duty can only stay in place for 150 days, unless Congress votes to extend it.

“Those members of the Supreme Court who voted against our very acceptable and proper method of TARIFFS should be ashamed of themselves,” Trump posted on social media.

“Their decision was ridiculous but, now the adjustment process begins, and we will do everything possible to take in even more money than we were taking in before!”

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Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s global tariffs

Earlier Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court concluded it was not legal for Trump to use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, better known as IEEPA, for his “Liberation Day” tariffs and fentanyl-related duties on Canada, Mexico and China.

Trump declared an emergency at the northern border related to the flow of fentanyl in order to use IEEPA to hit Canada with 35 per cent tariffs. Those duties did not apply to goods compliant under CUSMA.

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In a 6-3 ruling, the court said the U.S. Constitution “very clearly” gives Congress power over taxes and tariffs. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote “the Framers did not vest any part of the taxing power in the Executive Branch.”

The ruling did not say whether companies hammered by those tariffs should get refunds. As of December, federal data showed US$133 billion had been collected.

The court’s decision “reinforces Canada’s position that the IEEPA tariffs imposed by the United States are unjustified,” said Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc in a post on social media.

“While Canada has the best trade deal with the United States of any trading partner, we recognize that critical work lies ahead to support Canadian businesses and workers who remain affected by Section 232 tariffs on steel, aluminum and automotive sectors,” LeBlanc said.

During a 40-minute press conference Friday afternoon, Trump lashed out at the Supreme Court justices and said the decision was “incorrect.” Trump also denigrated Europe as too “woke” and took aim at Canada, saying the country ripped off the U.S. and stole car plants.

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Trump ‘disagrees’ with Supreme Court ruling, imposes new 10% global tariff ‘effective immediately’

Trump claimed that Canada said it hoped he would win at the Supreme Court “because if you don’t win you’ll actually be able to charge us, with additional work, higher tariffs.”

LeBlanc spoke with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer by phone recently. When asked for comment on Trump’s claim about Canada, LeBlanc’s office referred to his social media statement.

Greer told “Fox News” Friday that while the 10 per cent tariff is in place, the Trump administration will begin investigations of countries under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974.

That allows a president to take trade actions if the investigation finds a trading partner’s policies are unreasonable and discriminatory, but it would take months and include a period for public comment.

Friday’s ruling will have little effect on the Canadian economy since most of its exports to the U.S. are shielded by the CUSMA carveout, said CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld.

Candace Laing, president and CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, said it’s “not the last chapter of this never-ending story.” She cautioned that Canada should prepare for “new, blunter mechanisms to be used to reassert trade pressure.”

Trump’s tariffs and threats of annexation have rattled Canada ahead of a mandatory review of the CUSMA trilateral trade pact later this year. Trump has called the trade agreement “irrelevant” and said it may have served its purpose.

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SCOTUS rules Trump’s tariffs overstepped his authority, but what does that mean for Canada?

A successful CUSMA review must see Trump’s separate sectoral tariffs dropped, said Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in a social media post.

Poilievre criticized Prime Minister Mark Carney for not securing a deal with the Trump administration.

“The truth is no one can control what President Trump will say or do and so we must instead focus on what we can control,” Poilievre said. “We must unblock our energy and minerals, unleash our economy, and bolster our military and self-reliance for leverage to fight for tariff-free trade with the U.S.”

The Supreme Court’s decision is a win for U.S. separation of powers and the American and Canadian economies, said George Mason University law professor Ilya Somin, who represented small businesses pushing back on the tariffs.

“But also for the rule of law,” Somin told The Canadian Press. “The rule of law is at odds with a system under which the president can impose any tariffs he wants on any country for any reason at any time.”

—With files from Craig Lord, Kyle Duggan and The Associated Press

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Public consultations are underway for a proposed all-seasons resort in Alberta’s Kananaskis Country.

In December, the Alberta government announced plans to create three new all-season resort areas in the province, which it claims will create thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic benefits.

The designation of Castle, Fortress and Nakiska as all-season resorts will be the first ones on provincial lands in Alberta, but, as part of the change in designation, some of provincial park boundaries have also been adjusted.

On Friday, an open house was held at Calgary’s Mount Royal University to discuss the plans for Fortress Mountain, a former ski hill, located about 125 km west of Calgary, that closed its lift in 2004 and now only offers Cat skiing.

Plans to revitalize the area include hotels, gondolas, trail networks and private real estate sales.

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The proponents claim the project will create over 1,000 jobs.

“What we’re doing right now, we’re trying to figure out exactly where the points are that Albertans generally would like to see as part of this project or not see as part of this project and we really want to get as much information we possibly can,” said David McKenna of Ridge North America, who is working with Western Securities to develop the resort.

However, others are concerned about the impact the year-round attraction will have on local wildlife and plant life.

“The environmental assessment that was done failed to answer many of those questions and is insufficient, so given the fact that we don’t really know — we don’t have answers to any of our questions so we cannot support the development as it’s proposed,” said Gareth Thomson with the Biosphere Institute of the Bow Valley, adding that Kananaskis Country already receives 5 million visitors per year.

“That’s a million more than the National Park (Banff) and the mind boggles when you think about the transportation traffic, log jams on a busy weekend in the summer,” added Thomson.

“Fortress overlaps with important wildlife habitat for multiple species of which include grizzly bears and wolverine,” said Chloe Hahn of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. “We also have critical habitat for threatened bull trout overlapping with the site.”

The next round of public consultations is scheduled for Feb. 23 in Edmonton.

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Three Alberta ski resorts receive all-season designation

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While U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs were struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, experts and economists say the decision is unlikely to bring relief for consumers in Canada.

Hours after the court’s decision on his tariffs, Trump said he was imposing another global tariff of 10 per cent under Section 122 of the U.S. Trade Act, which limits tariffs that address trade deficits to 15 per cent and for no longer than 150 days.

The law Trump used to impose the global tariffs that were struck down — the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEPPA) — “does not authorize the President to impose tariffs,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion.

Economists have pointed out that the impact of the IEEPA tariffs on Canada has been blunted by the exemptions granted to goods traded in compliance with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement (CUSMA).

According to a report by RBC, around 89 per cent of Canadian exports to the U.S. in December were not charged with tariffs because they’re compliant with rules of origin requirements in CUSMA.

“The ruling will have less impact on Canadian trade than most other countries. Most Canadian exports are already exempt from IEEPA tariffs via an exemption for CUSMA compliant trade,” the RBC report said.

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Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s global tariffs

While nearly 90 per cent of the tariffs’ economic burden was borne by U.S. consumers and firms, Canadians have felt the impact of higher prices because of the integrated supply chains between the two countries.

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For example, beer cans use Canadian aluminum and are made into can sheets in the United States. The metal crosses the border several times before it hits the shelves.

Friday’s decision does not affect the sectoral tariffs on key Canadian products, like metals, autos and lumber.

“It’s not material at all for our industry in the aluminum sector because we are under a different section, Section 232,” said Jean Simard, president and CEO of the Aluminum Association of Canada.

Before Trump’s tariffs went into effect last year, some businesses acted proactively, said Concordia University economist Moshe Lander.

“Canadian businesses front-loaded a lot of exports into the U.S. to avoid the tariffs,” he said.

This meant many businesses had built up inventory to avoid price increases for their consumers.

Once prices have been raised, its unlikely that they’ll be reversed, said retail analyst Bruce Winder.

“These new prices have been normalized now,” Winder said.

“Most large retailers don’t lower prices. They might use some of that money for share buybacks, dividends or strategically lower prices or promotions if they see the market going that way. But no one at the top wants to lower prices unless you have a strategic reason to do it. It’s not good for sales and earnings,” he added.

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Trump could scale back aluminum and steel tariffs ahead of midterms: report

The real impact may be less so on price tags at stores and more on consumer confidence, said BMO Capital Markets senior economist Erik Johnson.

“It’s less likely to have implications on the job market and things that feed into decisions consumers make every day about whether to go out and buy a new car or whether to buy a new home or upgrade or downsize — all those big consumer decisions,” he said.

But Canadian businesses will continue to be on shaky ground with the cloud of uncertainty still hanging over the U.S. trading relationship, Lander said.

“The problem is not just the tariffs themselves. It’s these constant reversals on policy. Businesses that make decisions 30 to 50 years out need to have some degree of clarity,” he said.

“What you don’t need is a White House that takes a decision on a Monday, does a 180 on a Tuesday, doubles down on Wednesday, and then backs away from it entirely on Thursday,” he added.

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B.C.’s Premier David Eby is set to speak at 12:45 p.m. PST on Friday to respond to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled that Trump overstepped his presidential authority by imposing tariffs on Canada, Mexico and other countries under emergency powers, striking down a central economic and diplomatic strategy that has upended global trade.

A majority of the justices sided with lower courts that had found Trump improperly used tariffs to respond to national emergencies he declared over fentanyl trafficking in North America and international trade deficits, the latter of which led to so-called “reciprocal” tariffs against dozens of nations.

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The law Trump used to exercise that authority, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEPPA), “does not authorize the President to impose tariffs,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion.

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B.C. reaction to tariff deal with China

Eby has always been very vocal against Trump’s tariffs and the impact on B.C.’s economy.

“We are not going to accept these continual threats, this continued uncertainty. We are going to stand up for Canadians. This is unacceptable,” Eby said last March.

Trump can still impose tariffs under other authorities, including a national security clause known as Section 232 that targets specific industries rather than countries. Those tariffs on goods, including steel, lumber and automobiles, remain in place.

This story will be updated following Eby’s press conference on Friday afternoon.

— With files from Global News’ Sean Boynton and Ariel Rabinovitch

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The B.C. government announced on Tuesday that it is pressing pause on one of its longstanding promises: universal $10-a-day child care.

The province is putting a three-year freeze on that program.

New enrolment is being paused and there won’t be any further expansion of spaces.

The province says the goal is to stabilize the program, instead of rolling it back and moving to income-tested eligibility.

“We are hearing from families that it’s a lottery system,” B.C. Education Minister Lisa Beare told Global News.

“We’re hearing from operators that we don’t have the operating model quite right. There is an equity in the system.

“We’ve been talking to the federal government and our provincial and territorial partners about the sustainability and the inflexibility in the program. You know, so these are all things that need to be addressed.”

Beare said any current fees are not changing and any families receiving subsidized daycare will continue to do so.

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She said they are going to take this stabilization period to get the program “right.”

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Sunshine Coast losing 20 daycare spaces

Emily Mliecako, with Early Childhood Educators of BC, told Global News that they are happy the province is pausing the program.

“Especially the newest funding model, the operating funding model that is being used right now, we have heard many, many stories and have reported out to government that that funding model isn’t working for the operators and for the sector itself,” she said.

“So having a pause actually was welcomed at that moment.”

However, Mliecako said she thinks a three-year pause is too long.

“With this new amount of funding coming, that is a good thing because it’s maintaining what they have right now,” she said.

“However, there’s no room for real growth or opportunities for early childhood educators to have a robust wage grid, looking at their working conditions, looking at the quality of the programmes of the early childhood child care centres, all of those things are such critical pieces.”

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Budget season for Canada has kicked off with three provinces already posting steep deficits, a trend economists say is the result of several factors impacting every part of the country.

On Tuesday, British Columbia unveiled their budget that comes with a record $13.3 billion deficit in the next fiscal year.

In recent fiscal updates, New Brunswick announced a record-breaking $1.33 billion shortfall and Nova Scotia last month said its deficit is estimated at $1.4 billion. Alberta is also forecasting a $6.4 billion shortfall for the 2025/26 fiscal year.

“The increase in deficits is something that is being experienced across the country to various extents,” said Jesse Hajer, associate professor of economics at the University of Manitoba.

Hajer said two of the most common factors are the high economic uncertainty given trade tensions with the U.S., and a change in immigration that is reducing the labour force and slowing economic growth.

But he added there are also specific issues different provinces are facing.

He used Alberta as an example, saying oil prices are pulling down the revenue of the provincial government. Meanwhile, in Manitoba, the province is seeing what Hajer calls a “structural deficit,” in which its revenue base is “not enough to keep up with funding our baseline expenditures.”

“When we hit a challenging time like we are faced with today where the expectations of government are high, the revenues aren’t necessarily there to support and meet those expectations,” he said.

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A recent report by TD Economics suggested the tone by provinces as they ready their budgets will be “cautious,” due to rising deficits, increasing debt burdens, and economic outlooks shaped by slower growth, trade uncertainties and spending pressures.

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New Brunswick projects record $1.3 billion budget deficit

Moshe Lander, senior lecturer in economics at Concordia University, said governments are being faced with the issue that tax revenue is not rising nearly as fast as it could, and yet people are living longer meaning governments have to spend more per person.

“If tax revenues aren’t big, government spending is high, interest on the debt is high, then there is no path in which you’re going to hear a government say, hey, we balanced the budget, let alone ran a surplus,” Lander said.

Randall Bartlett, deputy chief economist at Desjardins, said in a report released prior to B.C.’s budget that economically, provinces have “fared better” than expected in their 2025 report.

This was due to economies getting a lift from historical revisions to gross domestic product published by Statistics Canada in November. That helped assuage some concerns about stagnating per capita GDP and productivity growth and put the provinces on better footing than first expected when entering the trade war with the U.S.

Each province and territory took a different approach, but Bartlett said Ontario and Quebec baked a strong degree of “prudence” into their budgets last year and should see a relatively rosier fiscal outlook by comparison in their own upcoming updates.

Lander said as deficits are announced and some provinces announce their plans, they should work to better educate people why the deficit is there as opposed to what is the dollar amount.

“Then they can understand that, hey, the deficit isn’t necessarily bad, it should happen during bad times. I want to hear surpluses during good times. Then people can be a little more informed when they hear these numbers so that they don’t have sticker shock,” Lander said.

Yet as more budgets and fiscal updates are set to be announced, there is the risk of who could be impacted most.

“There will be pressure now on provincial governments to find savings and to find those savings in areas of service delivery where advocates might not be as strong as in other areas,” said Tom Urbaniak, political science professor at Cape Breton University.

“Unfortunately, that means often that people who are in the lowest socioeconomic brackets who make the least money might be affected.”

—with files from Global News’ Anna Mandin and The Canadian Press

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