Canada

Would have been nice of the author to mention the massive amount of trade deals that Canada already has.

Canada is the only G7 nation to have free trade agreements with every other G7 nation. The wikipedia page on Canadas trade deals is huge, 15 free trade agreements with 51 countries.

And most of the countries he suggested in the article are under active negotioation, the big ones being:

• ASEAN
• Indonesia
• Mercosur

Canada could have free trade agreements with every country on the planet and would still probably trade more with the US because they're right there, they make a lot of stuff, and are the worlds largest economy... We cant teleport goods around the planet yet.

I think that targeted public funding to create domestic industries would be a much better way to secure the economy against US isolationism. Specifically in high tech industries. Why export 100$ worth of lumber to buy 1000$ worth of chairs if youll pardon my gross economic oversimplification.

Oh, great idea. Nobody ever thought of that before.

We need more self sufficiency in manufacturing and agriculture.

Canada is under utilizing that new second land border with Denmark

Maybe A few dacades too late 🤷

Yeah, I've actually come to think a smaller tariff would be good. There would be short term pain, but it would produce reorganisation away from the US.

Wow... Almost mainstream media saying so. They do delay mentioning China for a few paragraphs, but that is clearly the answer, if the auto/EV plant investments are cut off from US competitiveness.

Canadian politicians and media need to reject their CIA allegiances. The obvious role China can play is investing in natural resource extraction. Ask for 50/50 joint ventures in industry that processes those materials with options to buy a share of the production, and export a portion of value added processing as well as raw materials. Canada should withdraw from NATO if US puts tariffs on it. Rutte demanding extra US sycophancy by boosting military spending to 3%, and sacrificing pensions, healthcare, and social security to do so, and our media runs stories of "mandatory draft" and absurd threats to Arctic that are met by F35 purchases somehow.

All NATO colonies have significant GDP lag compared to US since Ukraine fiasco. The idea to reward Trump by importing more US weapons should be a repulsive reaction to the subjugation that Biden inflicted. Copying tariffs without Chinese consultations was by far the most pathethic act of submission of our Government, and Trump is "rewarding" our cowardice.

I've sometimes thought we could adopt the Euro as a currency, though it would remove our ability to float the dollar to change export/import ratios.