Navarro’s comments stung, but they weren’t untrue

If anyone in high political office in Canada thought that our soldiers’ sacrifice in a U.S.-led unwinnable war would earn us a bargaining chip at trade talks, then they do deserve to be turfed from power.

Peter Navarro, Donald Trump’s trade adviser, may have been misguided in telling a reporter his thoughts on whether Canada had been able to curry favour at the bargaining table by sending our troops to fight in Afghanistan, but he was simply telling the truth, writes Scott Taylor. U.S. Mission Geneva photograph by Eric Bridiers

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

September 2, 2020

OTTAWA—Last week, there was a brief, but intense, media feeding frenzy over Canada’s long-since discontinued contribution to the war in Afghanistan. The genesis for this controversy was previously taped comments from U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro. The recordings wer...

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