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VOCM Afternoon Update August 23 · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: I'm Ahelia artists. The gloves are off in the trade
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  Speaker 1: dispute between Canada and the United States, with no talks
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  Speaker 1: scheduled and the negotiating team back in Ottawa, Prime Minister
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  Speaker 1: Marcarni addressed the nation yesterday afternoon, accusing the US of
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  Speaker 1: changing the terms in the few days leading up to
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  Speaker 1: the Friday midnight deadline. He says Canada could not accept
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  Speaker 1: what the US was offering, nor could it give what
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  Speaker 1: they were asking for. President Trump has imposed fifty percent tariffs,
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  Speaker 1: so Canada will impose matching retaliatory duties to take effect
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  Speaker 1: just after Labor Day. He says, we are masters of
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  Speaker 1: our own destiny.
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  Speaker 2: This government is matching that spirit with twenty five billion
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  Speaker 2: dollars to protect Canadian workers and businesses hurt by American tariffs.
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  Speaker 2: We're helping small and medium sized businesses respond by investing
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  Speaker 2: equipment and productivity, in supply chain resilience, and we're financing
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  Speaker 2: large companies to keep large employers operating and to retain
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  Speaker 2: their workers. We're helping those hardest hit industries retool and
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  Speaker 2: pivot to those new international markets.
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  Speaker 1: He also says the US wanted to restrict Canada's ability
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  Speaker 1: to enter into other trade deals.
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  Speaker 2: What we've accomplished in the last year twenty new deals,
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  Speaker 2: economic and security partnership, the prospect of doubling our market
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  Speaker 2: access because we believe in free trade, were the partner
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  Speaker 2: of choice in many respects for countries around the world,
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  Speaker 2: and the Americans wanted to restrict that. They had language
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  Speaker 2: that they wanted to restrict.
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  Speaker 1: The unacceptable, the premier says. The Prime Minister has his
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  Speaker 1: full support as the provinces maintain a united Team Canada
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  Speaker 1: approach to its trade dispute with the United States. Premier
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  Speaker 1: Tony Wakem posted yesterday that the province stands firmly with
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  Speaker 1: Team Canada. He also offered his thanks to the federal
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  Speaker 1: government negotiating team for their work and decisions in navigating
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  Speaker 1: discussions with an unpredictable partner. He and the premiers of Ontario,
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  Speaker 1: Saskatchewan and British Columbia backed a firm response, while Alberta
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  Speaker 1: Premier Danielle Smith warned that retaliatory tariffs could raise costs
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  Speaker 1: for Canadian farmers. What economic impact the fifty percent terearfs
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  Speaker 1: the United States has imposed will have on local industry
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  Speaker 1: remains to be seen. The provincial government is calling for
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  Speaker 1: proposals to renovate and expand Pasadena Elementary School in the
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  Speaker 1: West Coast. Some sixteen million dollars was included in the
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  Speaker 1: spring budget for improvements to a coal Boreal in Happy Valley, Goosepe,
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  Speaker 1: Saint Teresa's in Munday Pond, and Pasadena Elementary. The school
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  Speaker 1: will be outfitted with four additional classrooms, a new kitchen
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  Speaker 1: and lunch room, accessible washrooms, and space for a pre
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  Speaker 1: kindergarten program. The Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary is teaming up
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  Speaker 1: with Transport Canada to establish stations around the province to
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  Speaker 1: supply personal floatation devices on loan. The need is even
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  Speaker 1: greater with more people taking to the water during the
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  Speaker 1: expanded recreational cod Fishery President Jim Chidley says PFDs save lives,
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  Speaker 1: and to date ten stations have been set up with
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  Speaker 1: life jackets, but they're looking for additional donations from the public.
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  Speaker 1: He says the goal is to have PFDs available in
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  Speaker 1: as many locations as possible. That's your news. I'm Mahelia.
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  Speaker 1: Artists