Our fight, it is no exaggeration to say, is the civilized world’s fight. It is a fight for reason and comity in the affairs of nations, against an administration whose worldview, and behaviour, is increasingly that of an aggressive dictatorship, in all its crudeness and its thuggery.

Mr. Trump, as the Prime Minister has said, aims to “break us,” a phrase with historic echoes. He has to now, or others will follow our lead. If he succeeds, then the world will be governed by nothing but force in the end, in trade as in other matters. But if we prevail, then “broad and sunlit uplands” must surely await.

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    13 hours ago

    EU, Japan, now do the same. It is insane to submit to Trump’s threats, he will always be back for more.

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      12 hours ago

      I can’t stand how we still trade with them, let alone work with them.

      I don’t want to work with or finance terrorists.

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        As I was telling my parents last night I don’t think the average person understands how dire the most recent talks are.

        I agree with you but that takes decades and realistically never match our trade with America. In the meantime many Canadians are going to lose their jobs with no hopes of another job on the horizon.

        Canada needs a UBI yesterday.