Let’s ride out the Trump circus by giving him some mutually beneficial wins

Keep the incoming U.S. president focused on himself so that he stays away from things that could hurt us.

Canada should be taking another tack instead of reinvigorating the old cabinet committee on Canada-U.S. relations—chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland—from Trump’s first reign, writes Tim Powers.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

November 20, 2024

OTTAWA—As we creep closer to the swearing in of United States president-elect Donald Trump on Jan. 20, 2025, the normal Canadian anxieties are blooming. Will we be crushed by Trump’s talk on tariffs? Will be pushed and fail on the need to spend more on NATO? Will our bor...

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