Canada, prepare for the big squeeze. A new Trump administration is likely to press this country on sensitive fronts: trade, migration and military spending.
The reverberations of Donald Trump’s election win will ripple internationally with his plan for sweeping tariffs, mass deportation of migrants and intense pressure on countries to spend more on their own defence.
The animating principle of Trump’s political career is that the U.S. must get tough with allies who have grown too reliant on it, economically and militarily.
And few are as reliant as Canada, as illustrated in a Washington think-tank report that said the northern neighbour risks being among the countries hardest hit by Trump’s plan for a minimum 10 per cent global tariff.
The still-undefined details of his plan have provoked a gamut of estimates about the potential damage to Canada’s economy, ranging from less than a half per cent of GDP to an eye-watering five per cent.
Trump has …