How can Canada credibly take on Trump when we, too, break global trade rules?

Open this photo in gallery: New cars are parked in the port of Zeebrugge, Belgium, on Oct. 24, 2024.Yves Herman/Reuters Matias Margulis is associate professor in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia. Kristen Hopewell is professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Policy in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia. Since President Donald Trump took office, the United States has arbitrarily imposed tariffs on all of its major trading partners, in blatant violation of global trade…