🇨🇦 As tariff deadline nears, what does Trump want from Canada? And will he get it?

Less than a week before 50 per cent tariffs hit nearly US$20 billion in Canadian exports, Ottawa is back in Washington doing the usual ritual of opaque meetings, social-media boilerplate, and managed optimism. Translation: Canada is negotiating from weakness again. The White House is using a never-before-used law to squeeze more than 400 Canadian products, and Dominic LeBlanc still talks like this is a normal rules-based conversation. It is not. It is leverage politics, and everyone knows it, as reported.

The real scandal is how exposed Canada has become after years of post-national management. When your trade position depends on whether Washington wants an optical win over Mark Carney, you do not have sovereignty, you have supervised autonomy. Now the menu of concessions includes alcohol rules, auto tariffs, dairy access, and even pressure to align with U.S. trade policy on China. That is what a hollow ruling class delivers: less room to maneuver, more room to submit, and a lot of patriotic slogans while the country gets pushed around.

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