The real message from the Ford-initiated meeting in D.C.? Canada has no chance of dodging Trump’s trade war for now

As relieved as the Canadian contingent was to be engaged in an adult conversation, the March 13 discussion yielded nothing in the way of immediate progress.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said the March 13 meeting with the U.S. commerce secretary was ‘productive,’ but he could be grasping at straws, writes Les Whittington.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

March 19, 2025

OTTAWA—Canadian political leaders and officials seem to have managed to move talks with the Americans over their trade-war obsession beyond the two-drunks-in-a-bar stage. At least for a day or so.

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