Why Canada should think ‘America First' when it comes to trade with the U.S.

US-CANADA-BORDER-HEALTH-VIRUS On its most important foreign policy issue Canada is sleepwalking into trouble once again. With U.S. election season heating up and the first regularly scheduled review of the new North American trade agreement two years out, governments, business and media are increasing focus on efforts to engage the United States. Being proactive should be good news, but it is not. The lessons of engaging an evolving Trump/MAGA United States are not being applied to the underlying framework of engagement — the choice of issues to discuss, how they are framed, the language that is used and the partners with…