Prime Minister Mark Carney signing a trade deal with the United Arab Emirates and Canada’s premiers and territorial leaders touting their latest agreement to lower interprovincial trade barriers are positive, albeit baby steps, to strengthen Canada’s economy.

But it doesn’t change the reality that the elephant in the room is our fractured trading relationship with the United States, to which we ship 80% of our exports and import 50% of our goods.

Carney has been preparing Canadians for bad news by steadily lowering expectations of what any new trade deal with U.S. President Donald Trump will accomplish.

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After he won the Liberal leadership race in March and during the subsequent federal election, Carney was all “elbows up” in hi

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