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The 2025 to 2026 Main Estimates were tabled in Parliament on May 27, 2025. Early media attention pointed to departmental spending plans for professional services.
Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) have been negotiating new collective agreements for more than one year. On November 15, 2024, the employees went on strike, and, on December 17, 2025, the Canada Industrial Relations Board ordered the employees back to work and to resume postal operations.
Negotiations in January and February 2025 between Canada Post and CUPW were mediated by the Industrial Inquiry Commission, and the Commissioner presented a report of recommendations to the Minister of Labour on May 15, 2025. The collective agreements expired on May 22, 2025, and the union is once again in a strike position. Negotiations are ongoing.
Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) has implemented procedures to ensure timely delivery of benefits and services to those affected by natural disasters.
What is the Government doing to protect the rights of workers who lose their jobs at The Bank of Nova Scotia?
Current status of softwood lumber (SWL) trade dispute between Canada and the United States.
The Canadian and U.S. economies are deeply integrated with the U.S. being Canada's top trading partner, largest source of foreign direct investment, and primary export market across several key sector
U.S. anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations into corrosion-resistant steel (CORE) imports from Canada.
There is some uncertainty regarding how the United States will approach the upcoming CUSMA trilateral review in a context of unjustified tariffs imposed on Canadian and Mexican imports.
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On March 7, 2025 the U.S. paused its IEPPA (fentanyl-border related) tariffs on goods imported from Canada that qualify for duty-free preferential treatment under the Canada-U.S-Mexico Agreement.
Canada is subject to U.S. tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) related to fentanyl and the border, Section 232 steel and aluminium tariffs, and Section 232 automotive