How you Canada address Trump tariffs, border protection during prorogation? 

The incoming Trump administration’s cabals Parliament choice, according to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, raises questions about how Ottawa you reply without passing legislation, but the government claims that it still has a number of capabilities at its removal. Due to the exercise, all parliamentary activity is suspended until March 24 and any charges that haven’t already received royal approval must be reintroduced in the coming period. That includes proposed new spending, such as the$ 1.3 billion that the federal government’s new border security plan announced last month. The program was put in place to address concerns raised by the newly elected president-elect Donald Trump, who has pledged to establish damaging 25 % tariffs on all American imports while urging Ottawa to redouble its efforts to combat cross-border immigration and drug trafficking. The border surveillance program includes many procedures that do not require parliamentary approval, according to a spokesperson for Public Safety Minister David McGuinty. They include measures now taken by the government, including an ending to “flagpoling” and shared border security activities with the provinces and territories, starting with Ontario last Friday. ” While Parliament is prorogued, the Cabinet and the public service continue to be fully operational”, spokesperson Gabriel Brunet said in an emailed statement. We intend to continue working on our plan to improve our border, strengthen our relationship with American partners, and protect Canadians.
Trudeau to resign as prime minister after Liberals select a successorIf Trump follows through with his tariff threat, Canada can impose retaliatory duties on American goods without the approval of the parliamentary system as well. Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs in 2018 were not required by the government to pass legislation to retaliate against them. According to constitutional experts, this is an illustration of how the government’s executive branch and bureaucracy will continue to operate largely as they would before. ” Prorogation does not create a caretaker government”, Emmett Macfarlane, a political science professor at the University of Waterloo who studies constitutional politics, said in an interview. The government “has all of the regular authority it would have if Parliament were sitting,” according to Macfarlane, a term that is different from when Parliament is disbanded and the government is “needs to be constrained in what it does outside of issues of public concern or emergencies” and is otherwise tasked with maintaining the nation” stable.”
Doug Ford demands Trudeau acts on Trump tariffs before exit: ‘ Prorogation doesn’t meanvacation’During prorogation, cabinet ministers and even the prime minister can continue to make announcements about new initiatives or issues of authority, provided it does not need new spending — which must be approved by Parliament — to achieve them. As long as any improvements to border security and refugee programs don’t require changing existing legal powers or authorities through new legislation, organizations like the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Canada Border Services Agency, and Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada can still use existing funding to do so. Prior to Parliament’s rise for the December winter holidays, the government was able to pass the necessary appropriations so that those organizations and others could receive funding through March 31. This is the end of the current fiscal year. The executive branch has a power to exercise without parliamentary approval, according to a 2015 report for the Department of National Defense. The legal report lists foreign affairs, war and peace, treaty-making, and defence and the armed forces as examples of where Crown prerogative can be invoked. Although the governor general is Canada’s Crown representative, the report notes that under Canadian law, Crown prerogative is “exercised at the federal level by the cabinet”, which ultimately carries executive authority. The Library of Parliament says deploying the military is also exercised under the Crown prerogative, with the cabinet, representing the King, serving as commander-in-chief. 2: 49
Justin Trudeau to step down as Prime Minister, Liberal leaderThe governor general technically has “personal prerogatives”, including the appointment and dismissal of a prime minister or the dissolving of Parliament. However, the report noted that these actions are typically made at the prime minister’s request or recommendation. Another power the governor general carries is to issue” special warrants” for spending, also at the request of the prime minister. With funds taken from the Consolidated Revenue Fund, they can be issued to ensure that government programs or agencies are funded during election season. Once the next session of Parliament is over, that spending would then need to be approved through supply motions. Any new initiatives that are funded in that way “would have to be in response to a real pressing concern,” according to Macfarlane, and Donald Trump’s actions against Canada “probably would count in that vein.” However, he continued,” A good caretaker government will also consult with the opposition before taking any drastic steps.” ” During a prorogation, the government has a pretty free hand” .&amp, copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.