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With Trump's tariffs, it's time for a more self-reliant Canada
Let's dust ourselves off and make things by Canadians for Canadians
Laxer, Gordon http://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/with-trumps-tariffs-its-time-for-a-more-self-reliant-canada
Publisher: Canadian Dimension
Date Written: 02/02/2025
Year Published: 2025
Resource Type: Article
Donald Trump says he doesn't need Canadian oil or anything else Canadian. Let's face it, Canada has been dumped and is on its own. By raising tariffs unilaterally, Trump will grossly violate USMCA, the former NAFTA.
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Twenty years before Confederation, the colonies that formed Canada were tossed out of a privileged export relationship with Britain. Stunned, colonial economic elites rose in anger against the granting of more self-government to settlers and burned down the colonial parliament building in Montréal in 1849.
But sober heads soon prevailed, and the colonies found a substitute trade partner in the rising US, to export resources to. Thus began a reciprocity treaty (free trade) shortly before the US Civil War. It soon ended though because Britain and Canada had traded with the southern Confederacy during the war.
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