Shifting trade away from the U.S. never more urgent

Canada has the trade liberalization deals in place to actually propel a long-term shift in export markets to Asia and Europe. Making it happen is another matter, of course.

It’s obvious that Canada is seen as easy pickings for a Biden administration that is just Trump-without-the-nasty-talk when it comes to the domestic politics of protectionism, writes Les Whittington. White House photograph by Adam Schultz

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

January 18, 2022

OTTAWA—Reducing Canada’s economic dependence on the United States by diversifying trade away from the U.S. to what the federal government now calls “overseas” markets has been an on-and-off response to American protectionism going back as far as you want to look. Promoting such a shift in s...

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