Andrew Coyne/The Globe and Mail: A deal that left in place punitive tariffs on important Canadian industries – tariffs to which we would now have formally agreed – would be bad enough. A deal that also limited our ability to strike trade agreements with other countries was obviously unacceptable.
But if that’s the case, why were we even talking? The Carney government frames the issue in terms of last-minute additions to the American position. But the agreement that was being talked about publicly before then was already unacceptable in its own right. And it prepared the ground for even worse deals to come…