October 27, 2025 - As Canadian officials scramble to find clarity on Donald Trump's social media post announcing a 10 per cent increase to what he called "the Tariff on Canada," the U.S. president himself appears to be thin on the details. Nearly two days after posting to social media the words "I am increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now," Trump has yet to say which of the various tariffs on Canadian exports to the U.S.

For more than two centuries there has been peace between the two countries. (Although Canada did not become a country until 1867, I’m regarding the British colonies in Canada before 1867 as Canada.) And not just peace, but truly cordial relations. Donald Trump has put all of that at risk.

5 days ago - So is Canada’s near‑absence in the strategy a warning that it will be taken for granted by a superpower increasingly focused on burden-sharing, or could it be a blessing in disguise — a sign that Ottawa is no longer squarely in Trump’s firing line? ... “If I were a Canadian,” said Jennifer Kavanagh, a senior fellow and director of military analysis at Defense Priorities and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies, “I would feel pretty good about this National Security Strategy.”

October 26, 2025 - Trump said while travelling to Asia on Saturday that he was "increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now".

5 days ago - During a meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House, Trump called the deal "transitional" and said it may have served its purpose. Trade with Canada may not be front of mind for Trump, said Fen Osler Hampson, a professor of international affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa and co-chair of the Expert Group on Canada-U.S.

3 weeks ago - If Europe needs to be concerned about US political interference, or worse, in its affairs, so, too, does Canada. If you think this verges on the paranoid, then check out this passage from the Trump doctrine: “We will oppose elite-driven, anti-democratic restrictions on core liberties in Europe [nearly us], the Anglosphere [that’s us] and the rest of the democratic world, especially among our allies [that’s a bull’s eye].”

November 27, 2025 - Mr. Trump reshaped last spring’s federal election, sparked a backlash against U.S. consumer goods and travel destinations, forced a wholesale change in trade flows and left Canadians feeling more unified, but also more precarious. Here are 29 ways Canada has changed during this remarkable year.

2 days ago - The people anxiously sipping hot chocolate in the Canadian Embassy in Washington on a cold night in January almost a year ago couldn’t have predicted the roller-coaster of trade provocations and bilateral blow-ups the next 12 months would bring.

3 weeks ago - There’s nothing that will comfort Canadians in Trump's national security strategy as our nation tries to figure out how to handle, or just survive, what Trump represents.

4 days ago - President Trump wants us to twist in the wind amid the combined leverage of punitive sectoral tariffs on steel, aluminum and softwood lumber and his pointed threats to walk away from CUSMA unless Ottawa capitulates to his terms. The time has come to signal—quietly but unequivocally—that Canada is, with all the due diligence required of such circumstances, preparing for Trump’s nuclear option: the end of CUSMA, the core of which is unfettered trade in manufactured goods of which autos is the largest subsector.

April 3, 2025 - The Team Canada variation just adds more of an effort to get various players on the Canadian side, especially provinces, working together in building those alliances. The strategy is in some question now because there’s a recentralization of power in Washington, but the new central decision-makers — i.e., Trump and his most loyal supporters — are openly hostile to Canada.

3 weeks ago - This runs counter to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s plans to diversify Canada’s trade and defence relationships away from the United States. The NSS delivers a vision of extraterritorial economic nationalism that sees the sovereignty of allies, including Canada, as something “lesser” to be dominated – particularly worrying in the context of Mr. Trump’s repeated musings about using economic coercion to make Canada the 51st state.

3 weeks ago - While on his way to a gala at the Kennedy Center in Washington, Trump said he had a "very good, very productive" talk on Friday with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum at the sidelines of a World Cup draw event. A spokesperson for Carney said those talks were "constructive." But on restarting the trade talks with Canada, which were suspended in October after the U.S.

1 week ago - ... OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump wants the relationship with Canada to be one of “dependence” on the United States, and is not talking about ripping up the trilateral free trade pact but renegotiating it, says Prime Minister Mark ...

October 26, 2025 - Duration 9:14In a late-night post on Truth Social, U.S. President Donald Trump called off all trade negotiations with Canada. The problem, he said: An Ontario government anti-tariff advertisement made 'fraudulent' use of the late U.S. president ...

Explore the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada, including how trade policies are re-shaping Canadian businesses and industries.

In other words, we will assert and enforce a ‘Trump Corollary’ to the ... Wilczynski told Playbook the section is deeply problematic, “saying it’s in the U.S. interest to constrain acts which Canada sees as in its own interests,” which include trade diversification, sovereignty in the Arctic, protection of cultural identity and support for multilateralism.

4 days ago - The latest unemployment data, released in mid-December, shows the economy added 64,000 jobs in November. By comparison, Canada, which is roughly nine times smaller by population, added 54,000 jobs in the same month. Many experts say Trump’s trade action has hurt American consumers and businesses by driving up prices.

2 weeks ago - As Trump floats pulling out of a trade deal with Mexico and Canada, officials on both sides of the border are betting the president won’t risk quashing a deal that has helped keep prices in check.