Tony Keller

After two years of trade war – U.S. tariffs, Canadian countermeasures, industries kneecapped, prices jacked up and U.S. voters questioning the point of it all… could Washington agree to a return to the status quo ante of free trade? …Canada should be pitching Americans – the White House, Congress and above all the American people – on a return to the status quo ante: Canada-U.S. free trade. That means full respect for the United States-Canada-Mexico Agreement, or at least the parts governing Canada-U.S. trade. No new deal is needed. The U.S. simply has to return to honouring the one we have, with zero-per-cent tariffs on almost all goods. …It’s a stretch goal that just became less of a stretch. With an incoming Democratic congressional majority opposed to Mr. Trump’s trade war on Canada, many Republicans similarly inclined and most voters onside, it’s no longer a pipe dream. [to access the full story a Globe and Mail subscription is required]