With the Trump administration’s promise to impose more tariffs on us in January, many Canadians are asking: What leverage should we use to get them to change course?
The question suggests that there are actually real things we can do to change U.S. President Donald Trump’s mind — that if Canada hits back hard enough, or demonstrates its willingness to suffer enough, we will get that policy change.
Christopher Ragan, the founding director of McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy and former chair of Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission put it this way: “Canada is in a set of negotiations with a party that appears to be unpredictable, volatile, so I don’t think anybody really knows what’s going to work here.”
