Trump appears to be championing the rearrangement, if not disintegration, of the world order created and sustained by predecessor presidents, Republican and Democrat. Not since Napoleon has a leader bestrode the global stage with such forceful unpredictability. Trump’s every action dominates the headlines and sets the news cycles. It should be followed up with by a Trudeau visit to talk about Trump, trade and hemispheric priorities.īlazing across the global skies like a comet, Mr. During his visit to Mexico last week, Natural Energy Minister Jim Carr reaffirmed Canada-Mexico collaboration with a new accord on mining, energy security and clean energy. Sticking up for our friends, especially Mexico, is important. This is the “art of the deal.” Our general operating principle must be to keep calm and carry on. The Goldilocks strategy is the right one: quiet engagement while not letting relations get too hot nor too cold.
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Trump’s actions are reaffirming our values on pluralism and internationalism, underlining the recent Economist cover: “Liberty moves North.”įor now, Mr. The Trump challenge is testing governments everywhere.įellow G8 and G20 leaders will monitor the Trudeau approach. to make the case for our mutually profitable economic integration. Trudeau also needs to enlist business leaders in Canada and the U.S. Trump’s transactional approach and business-minded team, Mr. The Trudeau cabinet should be all over their Trump counterparts with practical initiatives that serve both our interests. Trudeau should consider naming a deputy prime minister as counterpart to Mr. Trump will leave the application to his cabinet secretaries, with Vice-President Mike Pence acting as chief operating officer. We can hope that after setting the general direction, Mr. The Trump cabinet – bankers, billionaires and generals – are globally experienced executives whose views, as their Senate confirmation hearings demonstrated, often differ from Mr. Trudeau has kept the lid on anti-Trump comments, in contrast to the unforced errors by cabinet, caucus and senior staff during the Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin and Stephen Harper governments that unnecessarily marred relations with the George W. Trump to Canada having ambassador David MacNaughton signal a willingness to reopen NAFTA the reach-out to Mr. Trudeau has handled the initial phase well: inviting Mr. Trudeau to take the cabinet ministers responsible for security, trade and energy, and they must spend time on Capitol Hill with congressional leadership. A working visit to the White House would be preferable. The first face-to-face encounter will be important.
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Trump of our security and trade bona fides, then Canadian interests will be well served. Trump will need to be constructed on different lines, beginning with points of convergence: shared perimeter security, continuing regulatory reform and joint infrastructure projects. With Barack Obama it was a bromance built on a shared commitment to climate, internationalism and progressive politics.
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Trudeau understands that the most important relationship for any Canadian prime minister is that with the president of the United States. This means planning, not panic a co-ordinated, all-of-Canada strategy demonstrating that we are a fair trading partner and reliable ally. Trump very seriously, and often literally. His campaign punchlines on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, NAFTA, Muslim refugees and the Mexican wall have become executive orders. No other country, excepting Mexico, has such vital interests at stake.Īs President, Donald Trump has tempered neither his language nor his behaviour. The Trump challenge is going to test Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s sunny ways and then some. Canada’s relationship with the United States is deep and profound.