Canadian economic nationalism in the Trump era: what could possibly go wrong?

To boost innovation, Canada must think like a 'big, small country' rather than a 'small, big country.'

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, said he's in favour of imposing 'matching' retaliatory tariffs on the United States if President Donald Trump, left, imposes 25-per-cent tariffs against Canada.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY ROBERT D. ATKINSON

February 3, 2025

Canada’s lagging productivity and innovation, combined with the second term of Donald Trump, is driving this country's policy leaders to embrace a deeply flawed idea: techno-economic nationalism that discriminates against foreign tech firms. This approach wouldn’t just h...

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