{"id":941487,"date":"2026-10-22T01:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T01:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/941487\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T01:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T01:36:09","slug":"ottawa-queens-park-commit-billions-to-back-tariff-hit-workers-and-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/941487\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa, Queen&#8217;s Park commit billions to back tariff-hit workers and companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Canadian and Ontario governments have partnered to spend nearly $9 billion to support the province\u2019s workers and companies in sectors hard-hit by United States tariffs, including the steel and auto industries, and support infrastructure projects in the Ring of Fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The partnership was announced Wednesday at a joint news conference by Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Doug Ford, and is divided into several pockets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nearly $5.5 billion, $1.67 billion of which comes from the province, will be spent over five years to help the steel sector, including diversification efforts and access to new markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadian and Ontario governments have partnered to spend nearly $9 billion to support the province\u2019s workers and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[322457,49,48,322458,318811,318812,322459,311860,20739],"class_list":["post-941487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-322457","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-category-automotive-news","tag-category-business-news","tag-category-economy-news","tag-category-manufacturing-news","tag-london-free-press","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941487","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=941487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}