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Opinion: Time to lower our elbows and make a deal

The delaying tactic of refusing to renegotiate CUSMA until the current American tariffs are addressed has clearly failed

Canada’s “elbows-up” approach to American tariffs has been unique among market-based economies. What have the EU, Japan, South Korea, U.K. and especially Mexico done differently and what lessons might we learn from them? Mexico has recently announced it wants to complete trade negotiations with the U.S. before the November midterms. That would leave Canada as a jilted bride.

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The prime minister and the country obviously had a difficult hand to play in dealing with President Donald Trump — erratic, unreliable, crude and rude — and his clear desire to make Canada the 51st state rightfully angered Canadians.

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But the strategy of going along with the U.S. on border security and defence but being “elbows up” with retaliatory tariffs, boycotts of liquor and........

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