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The tariffs have arrived, a trade war begins and retaliatory measures are unlikely to bring quick relief.U.S. President Donald Trump has extreme designs on Canada. He also has a playbook: Trigger a crisis with ultimatums too vague to be met, negotiate with conditions that would be crippling, then “settle” for the actual goals: fresh water, minerals, manufacturing jobs.
If Donald Trump survives the unhinged belligerence of his campaign, and wins the presidency, it will be splendid news for regimes in China, Russia and Iran. Dictators are his role models. He, too, yearns to be unconstrained by rule of law. But for Canadians concerned about their own security, Trump’s return would be a national emergency, as he abandons alliances...
There is a deep sadness to reports that Michael Spavor feels he was badly wronged by his fellow former political prisoner Michael Kovrig and, by extension, political officers at Canada’s embassy in Beijing and their masters in Ottawa. Spavor reportedly wants millions in compensation from the Canadian government for its alleged complicity in his detention in his Chinese prison ordeal...