Canada can’t win a retaliatory trade war with the U.S.

Instead, we should focus on a nation-building strategy to transform our economy, identifying and pursuing our best chances for a post-Trump world.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the first ministers' meeting in Ottawa on Jan. 16, 2025. The Trump administration is expected to pursue a hostile policy toward Canada, intent on making us a vassal state. Our best bet is to focus on nation building, writes David Crane.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

January 20, 2025

TORONTO—There’s much debate on how best to respond should newly inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump’s declared plan to impose a 25-per-cent tariff on all imports from Canada and pursue other forms of “economic force” to bend this nation to his will.

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