Time for Ottawa to reset the agenda

The challenge to our prosperity is clear, but we have the capacity to protect the livelihoods of millions of Canadian families. What we need is the vision and the political will to make it happen.

To call the current trade relationship between Canada and the U.S. 'troubled' is to resort to euphemism—we are watching a breakdown of historic proportions. An overwhelmingly positive partnership that spans nearly 200 years is being threatened by a U.S. president, Donald Trump, based on figures he admits he made up.Photograph courtesty of Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY Perrin Beatty

August 6, 2018

OTTAWA—To call the current trade relationship between Canada and the U.S. “troubled” is to resort to euphemism—we are watching a breakdown of historic proportions. An overwhelmingly positive partnership that spans nearly 200 years is being threatened by a U.S. president based on figures he a...

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