Quinte businesses, workers, brace for fallout of U.S.-Canada trade war

Quinte business and government leaders say a $7.5 billion suite of new relief measures announced Tuesday by the federal government to stave off American tariff impacts may go a long way to helping the region’s corporate and medium- and small-business owners and their workers.The United States triggered 50 per cent tariffs on $27.6 billion of Canadian goods as of Aug. 22.Included in the federal relief package is a $1.5 billion “investment through the Regional Tariff Response Initiati