All Hands on Deck: Tariff Impacts & Actions

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Subject: All Hands on Deck: Tariff Impacts & Actions

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Tariffs Today:

Where We Go From Here

CUI is in the connective tissue business, knowing that knowledge and best-practice sharing across the urban system will accelerate the policy and investment innovations necessitated by these economic circumstances.

As economic uncertainty reaches a new normal, CUI is working with partners across the country to track the impacts of newly imposed tariffs (and counter tariffs), and amplify actions being taken to mitigate negative impacts affecting Main Streets – the economic, social and cultural life-blood of every community.

85%

of Canadians live within 1km of a main street

280K

businesses are operating on main streets

1.9M

jobs are provided on Canada's main streets

$300B

annual revenue is generated by main streets

98K+

civic and community infrastructure assets exist on main streets

Tracking Impacts

CUI's Tariff Tracker

Under the banner Main Street Canada, CUI will be tracking tariff impacts on Census Metropolitan Areas.

CUI is working with partners across the country to understand the impacts of economic measures at the local and regional level, and to identify actions that can be taken – by individuals, businesses, institutions, support organizations, and governments – to mitigate the negative impacts and strengthen our economic resilience.

What We're Tracking

Jobs and Businesses

Number of People Employed

Number of Employed Insurance Recipients

Number of Active Businesses

Prices and Consumer Spending

Consumer Price Index

Real Time Local Business Condition Index

Retail Sales

Investment

Number of Building Permits

Total Investment in Building Construction

Commercial Rent Price Index

Take our Survey

Share your insights on how tariffs will impact you, what data CUI should be tracking, and what actions we should be taking.

Take the Survey

Amplifying Action

City Watchers Are Back

As we did during COVID, CUI will be leveraging our network of "City Watchers" to amplify actions being taken across Canada to mitigate negative impacts.

Across the country, governments, businesses and other stakeholders will be implementing actions aimed to support economic and social resilience. CUI will be collecting these interventions and communicating them to engaged city builders so that we can learn from and inspire one another in a time of great need for collaboration.

Main Street Action Network

CUI regularly convenes a collective of over 200 organizations that will continue to mobilize and leverage each other’s voices, research, projects and networks to generate action in support of our main streets.

To join the Main Street Action Network as a representative of a main street stakeholder group, reach out at cui@canurb.org

Next Steps

Take the Impacts Survey

and tell CUI what we need to track to support you - here.

Partner with Main Street Canada

and bring your knowledge, skills and stories to how we build more resilient local economies and communities. cui@canurb.org

Participate in CUI and partner convenings

that highlight challenges and solutions - here, and see below for our most recent podcasts on local tariffs and economic resilience.

CityTalk Podcast

Local Matters: Community Wealth Building

Bolstering Canada's local economies has become an instant priority in the wake of Trump's tariffs. Heather Hachigian, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Management at the School of Business at Royal Roads University in Victoria BC tells us about the 'five pillars' of community wealth building solutions. Listen Now

Local Matters:

The View from the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce

Host Mary Rowe welcomes another conversation with Doug Griffiths and Heather Thomson of the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce, and frank talk about what could, and what shouldn't, happen in this moment of economic uncertainty. Listen Now

Local Matters: Supporting Community Businesses

Dan Kelly is the CEO and Chair of the Board of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), whose thousands of members' economic activity represent 50 percent of Canada's GDP. How can small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) reinvent themselves, and how we can all support the socio-economic vitality they bring to our main streets? Listen Now

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