{"id":877866,"date":"2026-08-31T05:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/877866\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T05:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:36:21","slug":"the-big-fight-with-america-how-the-canada-u-s-trade-war-is-shaping-the-quebec-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/877866\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The big fight with America\u2019: How the Canada-U.S. trade war is shaping the Quebec election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quebec is more than a month away from voters heading to the polls, but the mounting Canada-U.S. trade dispute is already transforming the provincial election campaign in an \u201cunprecedented\u201d fashion, according to political science experts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe U.S. is casting a shadow over the Quebec election in a way that\u2019s very, I think \u2014 at least at the beginning of the campaign \u2014 determinative of how everything is shaping up,\u201d D\u00f3nal Gill, who teaches political science at Dawson College, said in an interview Friday with The Gazette.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The collapse of talks at the 11th hour <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/quebec-wakes-to-worst-case-scenario-as-trump-slaps-new-50-tariffs-on-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">last week<\/a> triggered tariffs on Canadian exports by U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s administration. Prime Minister Mark Carney fired back this week with counter-levies of up to 50 per cent on certain items. Quebec is bracing for the fallout, prompting concerns over lost jobs and higher costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quebec is more than a month away from voters heading to the polls, but the mounting Canada-U.S. trade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338,92296,120789],"class_list":["post-877866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal","tag-news-videos","tag-quebec-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}