Trump’s Trade War With Canada Is Not About Canada

Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. The leaders in Iran will agree to nothing. The leaders in Canada could agree to anything—and it would not be enough. What should be understood is that the latter is, to some considerable degree, a consequence of the former. Poor Canada has been geopolitically upgraded from afterthought to distraction—our polite friends to the north were better off when we U.S.A.-type Americans had forgotten they were there. Kevin D. Williamson is national correspondent at The Dispatch and is based in Virginia. Prior to joining the company in 2022, he spent 15 years as a writer and editor at National Review, worked as the theater critic at the New Criterion, and had a long