Trudeau smart to hold his tongue after tough Trump trade talk

With every anti-Canada Trumpism, though, pressure mounts on Trudeau to harden his own tone.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured in February, said April 21 that 'Every country supports its farmers in different ways, and in Canada I will continue to defend supply management.'The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY CHANTAL HÉBERT

April 26, 2017

MONTREAL—In the big picture, the world is probably having a decent week when Donald Trump turns his rhetorical guns on Canada rather than on North Korea or Russia. On the scale of a nuclear showdown, the stakes involved in a Canada/United States milk war are—to put it mildly—in a different lea...

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