Bow River MP Martin Shields spoke with StrathmoreNow about the potential of tariffs hitting Canadian businesses.
"We have a very large cattle industry in this riding. We move both live animals and processed beef back and forth across the border extensively between the two major packing plants in southern Alberta."
Shields serves the area of Strathmore and mentioned that many people in the livestock industry are unsure of what will happen if the tariffs are implemented.
There are many feedlots in the riding that import corn from the United States according to Shields.
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Shields said there's also a sugar plant in Taber that exports sugar to the United States.
He added that there's a metal manufacturing business in Strathmore that also imports a lot of materials from the U.S.
"This will affect them greatly in the cost to stay in business."
Shields told StrathmoreNow that illegal drugs need to be stopped from coming across the border, and on Monday Justin Trudeau implemented a plan to combat the issue.