🇨🇦 Why this manufacturing industry insider thinks the U.S. will soon come around on CUSMA

The giveaway is right in the premise: Washington misses the renewal deadline, and Ottawa’s answer is an edited optimism tour from a risk consultant explaining why Canada should stay calm and prepare to concede. That is the Trudeau-Carney legacy in one sentence: dependence dressed up as strategy. The whole case, as reported, boils down to Canada being useful to U.S. manufacturing, energy, agriculture, and critical minerals, while also admitting the Americans are using leverage and Canada has already shown flexibility.

So the sales pitch is that sovereignty will be retained while approvals are expedited to give the U.S. faster access to critical minerals, digital service tax flexibility is already on the table, and more concessions may follow. Marvelous. We are told this is resilience. It looks more like a client-state mindset with prettier vocabulary. If Canada’s economic model is permanent integration, permanent bargaining, and permanent pressure to yield, then stop calling it leadership. Call it what it is: managed dependency sold to the public as competitiveness.

🍁 Maple Chronicles