Trump’s Tariffs: Building a Working-Class Response

US President Trump’s tariffs and trade policies represent a fundamental attack on Canadian working people. In our workplaces and communities, we are faced with layoffs, intensified attacks on social programs and rights, job security and potentially deep economic recession.

Given Canada’s integration and trade dependence with the US, working class, left, and environmental organizations have to find ways to debate collective strategies, share our analyses, defend working people, and build a challenge to business and business-oriented governments.

Paramjit Singh is associated with York University, Toronto, and Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. He has published more than 30 research papers in journals of international repute and has had articles featured in publications such as Jacobin Magazine.

Sam Gindin was research director of the Canadian Auto Workers from 1974–2000. He is co-author (with Leo Panitch) of The Making of Global Capitalism (Verso), and co-author with Leo Panitch and Steve Maher of The Socialist Challenge Today, the expanded and updated American edition (Haymarket).

0:00 Introduction by Matt
1:56 Paramjit Singh
31:11 Sam Gindin
1:01:22 Q+A

Recorded in Toronto, 24 April 2025.