WASHINGTON—Ontario might respond with its own protectionist measures if the U.S. implements the “Buy American” policies favoured by President Donald Trump, Premier Kathleen Wynne said on Thursday.
In an interview in Washington, Wynne said she had told Trump Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross an hour earlier that “we will retaliate if necessary.”
“We don’t want to do that, but we will if we have to,” Wynne said at the Canadian Embassy.
“There will be real damage done on both sides of the border if Buy America takes hold in any way across the country. And the expectation of our industry will be that we will act in accordance, and we will put in place similar barriers,” she said.
“And that’s what creates a trade war. And we’re not interested in that, we’ve managed to avoid that, we don’t want to go there, but we are prepared to. It’s what our businesses would expect of us.”
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