CP NewsAlert: B.C. cancels $1,000 grocery rebate, pauses hiring over tariff threats

By Canadian Press on February 13, 2025.

VICTORIA — British Columbia’s finance minister says the government is cancelling the $1,000 grocery rebate it promised during the election and will pause government hiring over U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs.

Brenda Bailey says the impacts of the “reckless” and “destabilizing” tariffs are impossible to predict.

More coming.

The Canadian Press

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