Trump's Unreliable Deals Fuel Calls for Canada to Seek New U.S. Trade Pact

The article contends that President Trump’s approach to international agreements renders them effectively non-binding, as none of his second-term trade deals have secured congressional approval. It cites the EU’s Turnberry deal, which collapsed after Trump threatened tariffs and pursued unrelated ambitions like annexing Greenland. A civilian nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia was altered overnight, adding demands to join the Abraham Accords, while the United States halted the Gordie Howe Bridge’s launch, renegotiating revenue shares.

These patterns have sparked renewed calls for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s administration to pursue a fresh U.S. trade pact, possibly with greater Canadian concessions. The author emphasizes that stability and predictability, hallmarks of traditional treaties, are absent from Trump-era deals. Consequently, countries that sign such accords often find the promised certainty to be an illusion. The piece concludes that Canadians should be wary of relying on any agreement with the current U.S. administration.