Unchartable as ever: Canada’s future still up in the air as Trump juggles his trade strategy

Canada needs some kind of breakthrough soon because the combination of existing tariffs and the uncertainty from Trump’s tariff shell game has this country headed for a recession.

U.S. President Donald Trump seems to be entering into a more difficult phase in his unorthodox economic project, writes Les Whittington. White House photograph by Daniel Torok

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

May 21, 2025

OTTAWA—Just when American stock markets were regaining previous losses from United States President Donald Trump’s destructive global trade war, he authored another zig-zag on May 16 with the warning that the White House would soon set unilateral tariff rates on—potent...

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