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Conrad Black: A comprehensive plan for Canada to survive Trump's trade war

Retaliation should be confined to those areas that get maximum American attention at minimum cost to ourselves

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President Trump has said many times that he likes Canada and that his only grievance against us was that we had better trade negotiators than the United States. I have had the opportunity to suggest that the most effective response to that was to get better negotiators rather than to sandbag us with unreasonable tariffs that would come back upon millions of Americans as well. The long promised 50 per cent U.S. tariff increases on a wide range of Canadian items are scheduled to go into effect on August 19, though there are rumors of an imminent preemptive agreement that will avoid that.

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Globalism was partly based on the retention of trade concessions that the advanced countries and especially the United States had made in order to buy the comparative goodwill of many politically neutral or unreliable countries during the Cold War, and partly came from endless demands from underdeveloped countries for “trade not aid,” as if we owed them the creation of domestic unemployment to increase their workforces. It has finally been realized that the advanced countries do not have to be overly self-sacrificing for the benefit of other nationalities to whom we do not owe such largesse.

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