🇨🇦 The key to winning the Canada-U.S. trade war is not retaliating, says think tank

The absurd part is not that Canada cannot win a tariff war with the U.S. It is that Ottawa still behaves as if chest-thumping is strategy. A senior economist is now spelling out what should have been obvious before Carney slapped counter-tariffs on $27.6 billion in U.S. imports after Trump hit Canadian goods with 50 per cent tariffs under Section 338, as reported. The lesson from the 1930s, we are told, is simple: Canada retaliated twice, accomplished nothing in Washington, and damaged itself.

That is the real indictment of the managerial class. They posture for domestic applause, then hand Canadians the bill. Carney is being offered a choice between adult patience and jingoist theatrics, and Ottawa’s instinct is still to reach for the costume rack. A sovereign country should have built resilience, cut red tape, and reduced vulnerability long before a cross-border shock landed. Instead, the governing class spent years worshipping global integration right up until it turned into leverage against Canada.

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