Canada has been caving to U.S. President Donald Trump.
That’s not what Ottawa is saying, of course. Canadians are being told that our negotiators are playing hardball – that everything’s on the table. But then we see the results: capitulation on the digital services tax (though it was a silly regulation in the first place, to be sure), the dropping of a collection of retaliatory tariffs, the scrapping of the so-called “Netflix tax,” and free money for the U.S. from tolls from the Gordie Howe bridge. The hardball Canada has been bringing to negotiations is more of a fluffy pom-pom, tickling trade adviser Peter Navarro’s nose.
