Canada’s declining productivity, supply chain woes and political decisions all affect trade with its neighbour

As vexing as the current trade environment might be, Canada has to recognize there were issues long before U.S. president Donald Trump and his on-again, off-again tariffs came along, said panelists at a policy summit last month.

“We’re not really in a different place,” said Cal Bricker, chief executive officer of Spirits Canada.

“Our trading relationship with the United States has always been kind of a fraught situation.”

He said recent months are the current iteration of this relationship, although more acute and with rhetoric many Canadians find more offensive.

However, he said Trump’s strategy is more coherent than it may seem, and Canada hasn’t quite figured out how to be

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