PM Mark Carney is fighting a battle for the soul of Canadian trade right now. Just as Canadian business is looking outward but also policymakers are actively seeking to leverage the advantage of widespread interest in economy-related affairs, US attack dogs in the form of tariff policy hacks are going after Canada like a bar brawl.
President Trump is hitting back hard in a process that has upped the anti and put relations between the two neighbours on the back burner. It’s reported that fallouts in North America are genuine in most cases. Such instances of mutual rebuke suck the life out of diplomacy and set many people on edge.
Carney is known as a negotiator at heart. He likes to manage the various competing sides toward a positive outcome so disagreement doesn’t harm relations in the long term. This will prove true here, but an agreeable nature gets short thrift in Washington if the matter recurs.