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Joe Oliver: Canada needs to focus on its vital interests
A strong economy is Canada's biggest foreign policy need and Ottawa can pursue that goal without triggering Donald Trump
Mark Carney’s elbows-up aggressiveness appeals to all Canadians’ patriotism, but especially to the instinctive anti-Americanism of the liberal left. It also conveniently deflects from the fact that the now 38 per cent gap between the Americans’ GDP per capita and ours mainly reflects Canada’s own economic policy failures since 2015.
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Canadians seem willing to accept the prime minister’s version of what led to the collapse in trade negotiations, even though they have to accept it on faith, without access to the details. They resent the deluge of demeaning........