Chrystia Freeland: “Trump’s tariffs ‘self-defeating and self-mutilating’”

The current bully in chief

The biggest problem with surrendering to White House bullying is that it helps make the case that trade really is a zero-sum game and that intimidation of your allies really does work.

That is not a way to have a partnership, and Canadians simply won't stand for it.

‘We have to hear what is being said’ is a milquetoast euphemism for surrender. That is rarely an effective negotiating strategy.