TRUMPED: A trade gamble Canada can’t win

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TRUMPED: A trade gamble Canada can’t win

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Author(s): Scott Sinclair January 1, 2017

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QUOTE: "Those hoping for genuine reform and an alternative model of North American regional integration should already be looking beyond Trump’s tenure. Just as grassroots resistance needs to be renewed, the organizing and visioning for a post-Trump era should begin now."

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Like many of you, we were caught off guard by the Trump victory. We are now faced with a right-wing, plutocratic U.S. government championing a nationalism laced with racial and ethnic overtones.

Trump’s ugly style of campaigning—especially the scapegoating of immigrants and minorities—is already tainting Canadian politics. Hopefully these tactics will not find fertile ground here, but they must be condemned unequivocally.

Yet, despite all the post-election hand-wringing among Canadian economic elites about Trump’s protectionist views, an upheaval in Canada-U.S. trade relations is probably the least of our worries.

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