For Canada, the trade debate never ends

A Democratic victory on Nov. 3 by Joe Biden would eliminate the gratuitous anti-Canadian attitude favoured by Trump, but the Democrats’ attitude on free trade is mixed.

Our dependence on a single export market, the U.S., is unusually pronounced for an economically advanced country, and U.S. President Donald Trump has regularly taken advantage of this situation to turn the screws on Ottawa, writes Les Whittington.White House photograph by Tia Dufour

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

October 14, 2020

OTTAWA—Former prime minister John Turner, who died on Sept. 19, faced the collective resources and determination of not only Progressive Conservatives, but also nearly the entire Canadian business community in his losing campaign against Canada-U.S. free trade in 1988. The pro-trade push that hel...

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