We know what’s coming, and what the dangers are. The time to prepare is now
President-elect Donald Trump takes the stage to address supporters at his rally, at the Palm Beach County Convention Cent er in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Nov. 6.For anyone who hoped Tuesday’s presidential election would serve as a rebuke to Donald Trump , the result is shocking. Instead of kicking Mr. Trump to history’s curb, American voters put him back in office with a vengeance.
An immediate one has to be immigration. Mr. Trump’s monstrous campaign promise to forcibly deport 12 million undocumented immigrants will no doubt prompt some of them to head to Canada. They might well do that before Mr. Trump takes office in January. The longer term threat to Canada will be economic. Mr. Trump’s vow to put tariffs as high as 20 per cent on every good imported into the U.S. would hurt America’s economy. But it would destroy Canada’s. More than 70 per cent of Canada’s exports go to the U.S.; the government needs to start working now on getting inside Mr. Trump’s tariff wall.
In order to be prepared, Ottawa and the provinces need to get their fiscal houses in order. Any government burdened by reckless overspending next year could be hamstrung by Mr. Trump’s chaotic economic policies.
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