President’s threat to rules-based world order is no joke

As Trump continues his shakedown of Canada, it is becoming apparent that his talk about using 'economic force' to annex this country needs to be taken seriously.

By re-electing Donald Trump, Americans have opened the way to the end of a world order centred on rules-based trade and democratic alliances that western countries have promoted and benefitted from throughout the postwar era, writes Les Whittington. Photograph courtesy of Flickr/Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

January 29, 2025

OTTAWA—It’s hard to imagine that many of the 3,000 business and political leaders who sat down for newly inaugurated United States President Donald Trump's virtual address to the globally focused World Economic Forum would have expected him to go out of his way to attack...

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