Stephen Harper
Stephen Harper calls himself the most pro-American prime minister in Canadian history. But the advice he gave recently to Mark Carney’s government was to take a different path — and reduce the country’s close integration with the US. …The relationship between the two longstanding allies simply can’t be the same after months of threats from Trump, Harper told an audience in the western city of Saskatoon. …He said he believes free trade will live on even as the US runs away from it under Trump. “The idea of using tariff barriers to raise revenue and comprehensively relocate industries, this is a failed economic policy where it has been tried,” he said. …Harper says Canada needs to quickly diversify its export markets for energy, critical minerals, and other strategic goods in response to President Donald Trump’s hostile trade actions. [to access the full story a Bloomberg subscription is required]
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