When President-elect Donald Trump recently floated the idea of annexing Canada, a key reason he gave was a claim that the United States was “losing $200 billion a year” to its northern neighbor.

Trump's biggest first-term trade impact was to shatter decades of political consensus favoring ever-lower trade barriers.

Canada must send a “message” to President-elect Trump on tariffs, one of its provincial leaders said Wednesday alongside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who described the threatened levies as unnecessary.

Trade has dominated the conversation in Canada since Donald Trump won the U.S. election and threatened to slap a 25 per cent tariff on all imported goods. Now with his inauguration just days away, it’s a good time to reflect on the trade barriers within our own country,