The comments come a day after Eby returned from a trip with premiers from across the country to Washington, D.C. The NDP is scheduled to unveil the budget March 4.

Chrystia Freeland and Mark Carney are two of the frontrunners in the federal Liberal leadership race. Richard Zussman caught up with both of them as they made the rounds in B.C. this week.

U.S. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports into the United States, including those from Canada and Mexico.