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Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday the removal of retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods compliant with the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, with the exception of those on steel, aluminum and autos.

“Elbows up” was always a campaign-winning but policy-losing strategy. We have all unfortunately become students of the mercurial menace that is Donald Trump , and we know that the U.S. President is less a serious negotiating partner than an obstinate toddler – and you don’t go “elbows up” against toddlers for the simple reason that they are, in a word, insane. Though you might threaten a “time out,” for example, as punishment for throwing their toys, they will retaliate by taking off their diapers and peeing all over themselves and the rug. They won’t care that they’ve soiled the

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