The Expert Group on Canada-U.S. Relations says the dramatic shift in U.S. behaviour requires a Canadian strategy based on three principles: diversifying Canada’s trade and security relationships, addressing the country’s declining productivity levels compared to other G7 countries, and ‘providing for our own security.’

As the Expert Group on Canada-U.S. Relations concluded in its report, ‘the world was a dangerous place before Donald Trump’s election’ as president, and ‘has been made more perilous by his … replacement of the rule of law with the rule of power.’ Photograph courtesy of Gage Skidmore/Flickr