CUSMA tears up Canada’s bilateral trade assumptions

The stability that once underpinned North American economic integration is giving way to permanent strategic uncertainty.
The United States treats trade not as a self-contained economic issue, but as an instrument of a broader political strategy, writes Bhagwant Sandhu.White House photograph by Molly Riley
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BY BHAGWANT SANDHU
June 24, 2026

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