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Report 15 · Jobs & economic resilience

Help workers and businesses through the shock - then build a more resilient economy.

Toronto does not control tariffs, but it can make help easier to find, protect productive capacity, strengthen local and Canadian procurement pathways, diversify suppliers and markets, and keep workers connected to opportunity - including when tariff pressure and AI-driven job change hit the same employer or occupation.

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One front door

Make a complicated response easier to navigate.

Businesses and workers should not have to understand which order of government owns every program before they can find help. Toronto can coordinate navigation, supplier information, workforce connections and local economic intelligence while federal and provincial governments retain authority over tariffs and most direct trade supports.

BUSINESS

Protect productive capacity.

Map sector exposure, help firms reach existing supports, diversify suppliers and markets, and preserve employment lands and investment readiness.

WORKERS

Keep people connected to opportunity.

Coordinate training, job matching and transition pathways with employers, colleges, unions and senior-government programs when trade shocks threaten concentrated employment.

COMPOUND SHOCKS

Tariffs and AI can arrive together.

A transition referral should check whether a worker is being displaced by trade, automation or both so training leads toward durable demand rather than another weakening pathway.

Toronto workers, businesses and entrepreneurship
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