Trump defends continent’s sacred right to choke on our own smoke

A triumphant U.S. president set out a damaging and costly scenario last week: the reversal of all attempts to stop climate change and a return to The Beverly Hillbillies era, when oil was 'liquid gold,’ and weather was just weather.

Donald Trump doesn't care about climate change, but Canada does have one important card to play. We could significantly reduce the 100-per-cent tariff it imposed on Chinese-made electric vehicles, and induce China to build some of their EV cars here, to get a toehold on a huge continent market, writes Susan Riley. Image courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

January 27, 2025

CHELSEA, QUE.—There is understandably a lot of fretting in this country about the dimensions and durability of a pending tariff war with the United States. But a triumphant U.S. President Donald Trump laid out what is, arguably, an equally damaging—and costly—scenario ...

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