If Canada is going to survive and thrive in this new era we must start acting like the world has changed, because it has. 

Key Points: 

  • Trump 2.0 is proving far more capable at implementing his agenda than Trump 1.0, and is facing minimal opposition. 
  • Trump’s agenda revolves around cutting taxes, monetizing trade deficits with global tariffs, reducing US defense commitments while pressuring allies to boost their own spending, and imposing American technology as the global standard.
  • For Canada to survive in this new era, it’s going to require clear-eyed commitments to industrial policy, building national infrastructure, and not expecting CUSMA to save us.

I hate to say it, but Trump is winning. 

He’s winning thanks in part to unreliable allies and bad negotiators like Keir Starmer, who scramble for first mover advantage to impress him. And there is currently little opposition in the US or abroad that is slowing him down.

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