The ‘high priest of Project Fear’ is struggling to shield Canada’s industrial heartlands from US tariffs
Mass lay-offs at Canada’s rail freight-carriage maker National Steel Car are expected to hit a little bit before Christmas.
After Donald Trump imposed tariffs on steel imports to the US in the spring, the manufacturing plant in Hamilton, Ontario, has had no new orders.
“The building I’m in is working on number 290 of a 300-car order. We’ll be done by the first week of December and then we will be laid off,” says Jonas Barry, 51, who has worked at the factory for the last eight years. “Probably most of the plant will be laid off.
