Bonnie Crombie Unveils Tariff Relief Plan to Fight for You and Your Paycheque
Targeted tariff relief plan focused on supporting families and good jobs in Ontario
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 3, 2025
KITCHENER-WATERLOO – Bonnie Crombie, Leader of Ontario’s Liberals, reiterated her commitment today to stand with Team Canada in response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
“I am fully behind a coordinated response by the provinces and federal government to fight back against Trump,” Crombie told the Greater Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber of Commerce. “We are united, 100 per cent, with every bit of true patriot love in our bodies, behind Team Canada.”
As Premier, Crombie would seek to ease the burden of these tariffs on people like you and attract new businesses and jobs to grow and diversify our economy for the future. She would be focused on spending money wisely and getting the basics right for the people of Ontario.
“Ontario needs a Premier who will stand up to Trump. Who will fight for our jobs, our industry, our small business owners and our workers. And it needs a Premier who will also fix health care. Who will make certain that everyone in this province has a family doctor.”
Crombie’s plan to fight tariffs and take on Trump will help address the deadly health care crisis in Doug Ford’s Ontario, with a commitment to incentivize nurses and doctors currently practicing in the U.S. to come back to Canada.
Team Bonnie’s plan will:
Fight For You
- Offer a bonus to patriotic nurses and doctors who want to come back home to Canada from the U.S. and help solve Doug Ford’s health care crisis and get you a Family Doctor.
- Remove the hidden tax on home building to save real people up to $170,000 on the cost of a new home and make rent more affordable by introducing phased-in rent control.
- Save people in Ontario up to $1,150 a year immediately through our More for You Tax Cut, keeping more money in your pocket and taking the HST off your home heating and hydro bills.
- Cut the small business tax rate in half, 3.2% to 1.6%, and increase the eligible income threshold, saving small business owners as much as $18,000 a year.
Create More Jobs and Bigger Paycheques
- Backstop Ontario businesses with a new Fight Tariffs Fund that gives them access to lower-than-market interest rates (at government rates). This will allow our businesses to protect and create jobs by reducing the cost of borrowing money to operate or invest in their businesses and workers.
- Ensure stimulus spending on infrastructure is focused on the projects communities in Ontario need the most – hospitals, schools, roads and transit.
- Lead an across-government effort to ensure we spend taxpayers’ money wisely – including directing departments and agencies to exclude American companies like Elon Musk’s Starlink and Jeff Bezos' Amazon from procurement opportunities – and invest the savings back into supporting this stimulus plan.
- Work with other provinces to eliminate nonsensical interprovincial trade barriers and build a truly Team Canada approach to growing our economy.
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