{"id":103151,"date":"2025-07-09T11:30:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=103151"},"modified":"2025-07-09T16:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T20:39:08","slug":"opinion-blayne-haggart-discusses-north-americas-evolving-trade-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2025\/07\/opinion-blayne-haggart-discusses-north-americas-evolving-trade-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Blayne Haggart discusses North America&#8217;s evolving trade landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blayne Haggart, Professor of Political Science wrote a piece recently published in the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/commentary\/article-mark-carney-trump-us-trade-tariffs-defence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Globe and Mail<\/a><\/em> about how American politics is reshaping the foundations of Canada&#8217;s economic relationship with the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>He writes:<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\"><em>The problem is that there is no more \u201cwe.\u201d There\u2019s 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\"><em>The North America in Mr. Champagne\u2019s and Mr. Carney\u2019s minds no longer exists. As Wilfrid Laurier University professor of political science J\u00f6rg Broschek pointed out on Bluesky, this trade-only focus ignores the fact<b>\u00a0<\/b>that the foundations of the North American economy are political, not economic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\"><em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/commentary\/article-mark-carney-trump-us-trade-tariffs-defence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Globe and Mail<\/em>\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s economic relationship with the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,38],"tags":[3445,4104,522,486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103151"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103162,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103151\/revisions\/103162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}