Tony Keller/The Globe and Mail: Their goal is not a United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement that frees up more trade, but a USMCA that imposes new trade restrictions – on us. Not lower tariffs all around, but instead higher U.S. tariffs.
Not shared industries with production chains snaking back and forth and back again across an invisible border, as in the auto industry, but a thicker border, forcing industries to relocate to the U.S.
And no more seeking mutual trade benefits, but instead aiming for U.S. trade gains paid for with Canadian trade losses…