Canada must rethink trade strategy after a half-century of U.S. special access

With NAFTA talks on the rocks, this underscores Canada’s need to quickly diversify trade away from the U.S.

Left, prime minister Lester Pearson and U.S. president Lyndon Johnson sit on a couch at Mr. Johnson's Texas ranch on Jan. 15, 1965, the night before they signed the Canada-U.S. Auto Pact, the first of a series of trade deals between the two countries. LBJ Library photograph by Yoichi Okamoto

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

October 18, 2017

OTTAWA—On Jan. 16, 1965, prime minister Lester Pearson sat next to U.S. president Lyndon Johnson at an outdoor table at Johnson’s ranch in Texas to sign the papers bringing the Canada-U.S. Auto Pact into existence. Old footage shows Johnson looking vague about the whole thing while Pearson exud...

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