Dennis Molinaro: Diversifying trade with China is a losing play

“An economic slump in the U.S. was going to affect Canada’s financial health, and so trade diversification again became a driving consideration. But instead of diversifying trade with like-minded democracies, Canada went begging at the doorstep of the Communist state that had been engaged in foreign interference and espionage against Canada and the U.S. for the past 30 years.” That passage was referring to 2008. But in a previous chapter, I referred to the mid-1990s, and before that the late 1970s and early 1980s. A pattern emerges. It is one that Ottawa has fallen neatly back into in 2026. Disagreements…