Trade with Canada constitutes 2% of America’s GDP and trade with America constitutes a whopping 20% of Canada’s GDP. My home province of New Brunswick finds 50% of its private sector exporting to the U.S. – NAFTA is of vital importance to our economy.
The dwindling efforts of Trudeau’s cabinet to negotiate a deal with the Americans could become his government’s greatest failure. With tariffs already being imposed on steel and aluminum, NAFTA is potentially unraveling before our eyes and along with it, the Canadian economy.
Trudeau’s American counterpart isn’t known for his vocal support of trade and yet he handed Canada everything on a silver platter at the recent G7 summit. He offered to remove all tariffs and subsidies on imports and exports, provided Canada did the same. This is about as fair an offer as one could expect. Trudeau retaliated by insisting Canada had been insulted.
The trouble with Trudeau is precisely that. He was given a talking point. He developed rhetoric rather than substance. ...
The initial renegotiation began with Trudeau’s government attempting to include a chapter on gender....
...He refused to relinquish supply management. Anyone who has bought milk on both sides of the border has found out that milk is twice as expensive in Canada. Canada has tariffs on dairy as high as 270%. With strict controls on dairy, chicken, and eggs, our grocery bills are higher than they ought to be. Trump offered to solve this problem for us and Trudeau declined – the Canadian dairy farmers were ecstatic at the opportunity to overcharge Canadians, but the Americans were eager to walk away from the negotiating table; meanwhile our cost of living is skyrocketing.
...Soon, men and women could be equally unemployed to satisfy Trudeau’s ideology. Now, men and women could have equally-high grocery bills. Trudeau’s finding insults where none were intended could diminish the wages of men and women equally. Canada drastically needs a different path.