With three weeks to go until new 50% US tariffs hit the Canadian economy, federal minister for Canada-US Trade, Dominic LeBlanc, is in Washington D.C. for meetings with his American counterparts. Graham Richardson is joined by Scotty Greenwood, founder of Ottawa Street Strategies and a former US diplomat to Canada, who argues the Carney government needs to treat the trade war as exactly that: A war.

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