🇨🇦 Trump's CUSMA tactics could make employers act as if it 'never existed'

So much for the sacred stability of continental free trade. One missed renewal and Canadian business is already being told to plan as if CUSMA never existed, as reported. That is the real absurdity: Ottawa sold integration with the U.S. market as security, but annual review turns it into permanent leverage for Washington. Every year becomes another round of pressure, tariff threats, and demands while Canada waits politely for the empire to decide how open the border should be.

This is what sovereignty erosion looks like in practice. When your economy is wired around guaranteed access to someone else’s market, you do not have an industrial strategy, you have dependency with nicer branding. The snippet admits firms may pause investment, rework contracts, raise prices, and hunt for buyers elsewhere. Translation: uncertainty, weaker bargaining power, and another reminder that post-national management leaves Canada exposed to every mood swing in Washington. Liberal elites love rules-based fantasies right up until the rules become annual extortion.

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