Blayne Haggart, Professor of Political Science wrote a piece recently published in the Globe and Mail about how American politics is reshaping the foundations of Canada's economic relationship with the U.S.Blayne Haggart, Professor of Political Science wrote a piece recently published in the Globe and Mail about how American politics is reshaping the foundations of Canada’s economic relationship with the U.S.
He writes:
The problem is that there is no more “we.” There’s a difference between a North America in which the U.S. is the dominant player and one in which the United States seeks to dominate. We now live in the latter world of us versus them.
The North America in Mr. Champagne’s and Mr. Carney’s minds no longer exists. As Wilfrid Laurier University professor of political science Jörg Broschek pointed out on Bluesky, this trade-only focus ignores the fact that the foundations of the North American economy are political, not economic.
Politicians and academics have long recognized that North America was built not just on commercial self-interest but on shared values and norms: the rule of law, respect for national sovereignty, and U.S. self-restraint.
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