Trump’s colonial ultimatum to Canada

When Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney walked away from the negotiating table with Donald Trump on the night of Aug. 21, it was because U.S. negotiators had slapped down a list of demands that read less like a trade agreement proposal and more like a colonial surrender treaty. In the days that followed, leaks from Ottawa exposed the scale of the capitulation Trump sought to impose: veto power for a U.S.-dominated review board over foreign investment in Canadian ports, telecoms, pipelines, and