Two years of Trump tariff pain later, Canada heads back to the trade talks holding real leverage - Toronto Star

The U.S. midterms delivered a sweeping rebuke to Trump's tariff agenda, writes Daniel Tisch, and Canada is entering new talks with more leverage than ever.

The U.S. midterms delivered a sweeping rebuke to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda, writes Daniel Tisch, and Canada is entering new talks with more leverage than ever.

Daniel Tisch is the president and CEO of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce and a contributing columnist for the Star. He can be reached at president@occ.ca.

For two years, as Canadians watched the U.S. pursue mutually destructive economic policies, many clung to a hope that most Americans shared our concerns about Donald Trump’s agenda.

In this week’s midterm elections, U.S. voters validated that fragile faith emphatically handing Democrats control of both houses of Congress.

Now, this week’s resumption of Canada-U.S. trade talks are set against a dramatically different political backdrop.

The sheer scale of Republican losses holds a lesson for governments in every democracy: Don’t ignore the biggest job you were elected to do.

There’s a clear line connecting the U.S. midterm election results to the budget being unveiled in Canada on Thursday, Susan Delacourt writes.