Shakedowns, bullying business, trade outrages: election-bound Trump spreads chaos far and wide

Canadians should be ready for further trade ambushes on flimsy national security grounds, including possibly renewed tariffs on Canadian steel.

As a desperate Trump seeks any possible ploy to fuel a reversal of his weak poll numbers, the chaos is rolling out from the White House across the U.S. and the world in seemingly endless waves, writes Les Whittington. White House photograph by Shealah Craighead

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

August 12, 2020

OTTAWA—Whatever your political stripe, you have to have some sympathy for Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland. In the face of President Donald Trump’s plan to scrap NAFTA if it could not be renegotiated along lines more advantageous to the U.S., Freeland led Ottawa’s 18-month campaign to ...

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