As they arrived in Huntsville for three days of meetings that will focus on the ongoing economic threat of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, the unity that characterized provincial premiers’ responses last winter seemed to have waned. The sessions include Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday and discussions with some Indigenous leaders on resource projects—but the umbrella Inuit group, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, is boycotting the event. (The Logic)

Talking point: Premiers voiced competing priorities. Quebec’s François Legault said Carney must defend dairy supply management (a particular Trump peeve) and spend new defence dollars on domestic production. Saskatchewan’s Scott Moe worried publicly that federal moves to protect steel and aluminum makers in central Canada might antagonize China into buying fewer Prairies food products. Host Doug Ford said he’s trying to attract companies that make steel beams and aluminum cans.