Navigating Trump and the tariff threat

Trump plays offence. Canada plays defence, wasting money on the border rather than talking up American reliance on Canada for about 60 per cent of its oil imports and its storehouse of critical minerals.

U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and U.S. Vice-President J.D. Vance. Trump believes U.S. economic power can be used to bend others to his will. If he really wants to annex Canada, talk of border security is a distracting smoke screen, writes Nelson Wiseman. Photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, illustration by Neena Singhal

Opinion

BY NELSON WISEMAN

March 3, 2025

TORONTO—This column does not deserve to be written, and it warrants reading even less. What is there to say about U.S. President Donald Trump that has not been said? And what could be new to surmise about his attitude toward Canada, and his threat to tariff Canadian goods?...

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