Ford said that with Trump's inauguration day less than a week away, a plan for how to respond to the tariffs should have been finalized by now.

The corridor between Toronto and Quebec City would run along mostly brand new track on land owned largely by Canada’s two rail giants, CN and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd.

Building permit values reached $11.7 billion for the month, with both sectors reporting contractions.

Statistics Canada’s labour force survey on Friday said the unemployment rate dipped 0.1 percentage points to 6.7 per cent, beating expectations. 

A senior government official said Ottawa has made no decisions yet on retaliation, and is not prepared to share the full list of items under consideration.