Trump shows globalization’s logic can be challenged

He’s demonstrated that some of the world's biggest companies can be strong-armed into repatriating high-wage manufacturing jobs.

Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland seems to be a captive of a 19th-century delusion that countries that open their borders fully to commodities, investment, and labour are somehow more virtuous than those that do not, writes Thomas Walkom.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY THOMAS WALKOM

January 18, 2017

Give Donald Trump credit for this. The United States president-elect might not be everybody's favourite person, but he is showing that governments can successfully challenge the logic of globalization. In particular, he has demonstrated some of the world's biggest companies can be strong-armed into...

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