NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump is setting fire to the North American economy as he promised Canadian workers that the NDP would have their backs during the trade war.
Campaigning in Winnipeg, Singh visited a training facility for unionized trades workers where he outlined what his party will do as Trump rolls out a new set of tariffs on much of the rest of the world.
“Donald Trump represents a storm. He’s an arsonist. He’s setting fire to the economy, his own economy and ours as well,” Singh said against a backdrop of students in hard hats and safety vests. “He represents a storm, and in that storm, in that difficult time, Canadians know how to weather a storm. Canadians know to get through a difficult time. And we do that by looking out for each other.”
At a press conference at the White House on Wednesday, Trump presented a lengthy list of tariffs various countries will face under his new trade measures, but did not specify how Canada will be affected.
Singh also met briefly with Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew in Winnipeg on Tuesday. Singh said he and the premier are “on the same page” on the tariff fight and thanked Kinew for all he was doing to “fight back.”
At the training facility in Winnipeg, Singh unveiled his party’s plan to safeguard Canada from Trump’s trade war.
Singh cited previously announced NDP policy proposals such as increasing employment insurance payments, building an east-west electricity grid and putting money collected through retaliatory tariffs into affected sectors like steel and auto manufacturing. He pitched his party’s plan as worker-focused and aimed at middle-class families who may be affected by the tariffs… Source: ctvnews.ca
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
