THE BRANDON SUN • WESTMAN BUSINESS • OCTOBER 25, 2025
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However, there are new opportunities for growers in the biofuel market, for which Burtnack is hopeful. The closed off market across the Pacific Ocean hasn’t made the year a full-on loss for farmers, she said, it just makes it more difficult. It’s not just business owners and deci- sion makers feeling the brunt of decisions being made by foreign governments, says the City of Brandon’s economic develop- ment officer, Gerald Cathcart. “All of this uncertainty trickles down, not only from the owners and managers of businesses, but to their employees, their staff … and the employees’ fami- lies,” Cathcart said. “And it adds that to the price of a lot of goods and services that we purchase. “We’ve seen increased costs and infla- tion on food and other manufacturing goods that’s attributable to tariffs.” Despite that, Cathcart said the city is seeing a rise in new business permits, and capital investment is strong across the Wheat City. “Certainly, capital investment has been strong. There’s further building going on, a lot of capital being invested both by lo- cal companies and companies with head offices outside of Manitoba (and) outside of Canada in some cases,” Cathcart said.
What you’re doing right now is you’re trying to make sure that you’re not reliant only on that U.S. business model, because it’s a little bit more volatile than it had been in the past.” – CHUCK DAVIDSON, PRESIDENT AND CEO MANITOBA CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE
Erinio Tabirara with Atom-Jet Group works at a CNC machine making parts for a customer inside the machine shop on Park Avenue. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
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