OTTAWA — Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is getting the band back together, seeking to rally a united front and co-ordinate springing a plan into action to deal with threats posed by the incoming Donald Trump presidency.
She’s spending her days talking with heads of major industries and various premiers and meeting with members of parties across the political spectrum, mirroring efforts by her government the last time a Trump White House threatened Canada’s national interests.
Freeland’s schedule has been packed with meetings with auto-parts manufacturers and steel companies, leaders of Canada’s largest banks and major pension funds. On Saturday it’s Alberta’s oil and gas sector, and next week it’s organized labour groups. For the first time since Trump left office in early 2021, Freeland convened a special cabinet committee on Canada-U.S. relations on Friday. The committee is made up of senior ministers co-ordinating Canada's new U.S. strategy, including Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Immigration Minister Marc Miller, with trade and the border being the two biggest concerns.
But the last time Ottawa grappled with Trump in a major trade fight was over steel and aluminum tariffs some seven years ago, and Freeland said Canada won out in the end. Freeland dealt frequently with Lighthizer over Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs and the NAFTA renegotiations that produced a revamped trilateral trade pact, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement — which she now points to as reason to be reassured about Canada’s current position.
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