Advice from people close to the mercurial U.S. president suggests that friendship with him is like no other — and certainly may not be in Canada’s interests, Susan Delacourt writes.
Source: Does Canada even want a friend like Donald Trump?
here’s an idea: let the ice vehicle makers move south, and go all in in evs and battery making. let tfg drag them into the past without us…
fta:
“America is first, and Canada can be second,” Lutnick said at one point, also advising that this country should be braced to see its auto industry migrate south. Moreover, he said, Canada should just get used to the idea that the trade relationship of the past three decades is over.
“Nostalgia isn’t a strategy. Our relationship will never again be what it was. In terms of that aspect of it, that’s and that’s not a criticism,” he said. “It doesn’t lessen the ties between us as a people,” the prime minister said, but it does alter the economic ties, irreversibly.
