'Absolutely stunning' tariffs require strong retaliation, says Business Council of Canada
Goldy Hyder, president and CEO of the Business Council of Canada, says U.S. President Donald Trump's 25 per cent tariffs on all Canadian goods is like 'someone's punching you in the face. You're going to have to punch back.'
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Canada Standard
5 minutes ago
- Canada Standard
Canadian international relations experts share their views on global politics and Canada's role
A survey of Canadian international relations professors has found they disagree on how to respond to potential Chinese aggression against Taiwan and which global regions will matter most to Canada in the future. For the past 20 years, the Teaching, Research and International Policy (TRIP) survey has asked university professors about how they teach international relations and what they think about global affairs. Originally based in the United States, the survey expanded to Canada in 2006 and is now conducted regularly in many countries. The Canadian faculty survey was conducted from March 5 to July 12, 2024. Of the 109 who participated, most held permanent academic positions, including 22 full professors, 31 associate professors and six emeritus professors. Participants were asked to agree or disagree with statements about global politics. Seventy-five experts agreed that states are the main players in global politics, but there was less agreement on the importance of domestic politics. Most felt that international institutions help bring order to the chaotic global system. However, whether globalization has made people better off - even if there are some losers - divided experts, with 21 believing no one is better off due to globalization while two-thirds believed the opposite. When it came to more critical or less mainstream ideas - such as whether major international relations theories are rooted in racist assumptions - opinions were split. More than 50 agreed, but more than a third disagreed, and many gave neutral responses. Disagreement over the role of racism in shaping world politics highlights the difficulty of decolonizing international relations and incorporating post-colonial perspectives - particularly when trying to understand complex "failed cases" like United Nations peacekeeping efforts in Haiti. Read more: For Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic, 'reproduction is like a death sentence' Professors were also asked where they get their international news. Most rely on major newspapers, international media and internet sources. When asked which world region is strategically most important for Canada today, nearly half - or 43 of 97 experts opting to respond to the question - chose North America (excluding Mexico); in other words, the United States. Sixteen selected the Arctic and another 16 chose East Asia. Very few picked regions like the Middle East, Europe or Russia. Looking ahead 20 years, 10 experts shifted their answer from North America to the Arctic. Experts were asked what Canada should do if China attacks Taiwan. Most supported non-military responses: 72 supported sanctions and 69 supported taking in refugees. About half supported sending weapons or banning Chinese goods. Fewer supported cyberattacks (18), sending troops (15) or a no-fly zone (14). Surprisingly, six said Canada should launch military action against China. Justin Trudeau was prime minister when the survey was conducted. When asked about his performance, 50 per cent rated him poorly or very poorly, 30 per cent were neutral and only a small minority rated him positively. Canadian international relations professors don't always agree, but a few trends stand out. Despite recent government focus on the Arctic in terms of its Our North, Strong and Free policy, many professors still view the U.S. as Canada's most important strategic region. East Asia drew some attention, but few see it growing in importance. With a new government under Prime Minister Mark Carney, there may be opportunities to improve on areas where Trudeau was seen as weak by respondents to the survey. For example, despite having developed a strategy for the Indo-Pacific region, vital Canadian trade and maritime security interests were minimized by the previous Liberal government. Carney could therefore contemplate expanding Canada's maritime assets, improving its artificial intelligence and cybersecurity capacity and investing in digital infrastructure and quantum computing. Read more: Defence policy update focuses on quantum technology's role in making Canada safe Carney had pledged to fulfil Canada's commitment to NATO's target of two per cent of GDP spent on defence, saying Canada will meet the threshold by the end of 2025. However, Canada will still lag behind. NATO is calling on allies to invest five per cent of GDP in defence, comprising 3.5 per cent on core defence spending as well as 1.5 per cent of GDP per year on defence and security-related investment, including in infrastructure and resilience. Canada's 2024 GDP was $2.515 trillion, which means a five per cent defence investment of nearly $125 billion annually would have accounted for more than a quarter of a federal budget (which was under $450 billion in 2024-2025). Canada, a founding NATO member, leads a multinational brigade in Latvia and supports Ukraine in other ways. Ukraine seems on an irreversible path towards NATO membership. Though 69 per cent of respondents supported NATO membership for Ukraine, only 44 per cent felt it was likely. Though the U.S. tariff crisis attracts attention, some experts are increasingly looking to the Arctic to understand Canada's strategic interests - a trend sure to be reflected in future surveys of Canadian international relations experts.
Toronto Sun
14 minutes ago
- Toronto Sun
GOLDBERG: Trump deploys, protesters respond. This will not end well
President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One, Tuesday, June 10, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. Photo by Alex Brandon / AP Photo 'Here we go.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. 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Create Account 'I knew it would come.' 'This won't end well.' Those were my initial reactions to President Donald Trump's announcement that he had activated the California National Guard and to sources last week saying Marines would serve as backup. I'm not claiming much prescience. Like his breakup with Elon Musk last week, his deploying the military against protesters could not have been more foreseeable. The only uncertainty was about timing and pretext. Let me be clear: If you follow the timeline about what happened in Paramount, a community in Greater Los Angeles, I don't think calling in the National Guard (or the Marines) — over the wishes of the governor, Gavin Newsom — was warranted. The last time a president activated the Guard without a request from a governor was 1965, when Alabama Gov. George Wallace refused to protect civil rights marchers in his state. Newsom's objection that the Guard's presence would unnecessarily inflame the situation seems eminently plausible. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Newsom is suing the Trump administration for illegally deploying the Guard. I'm skeptical. Trump's order does not seem unlawful on its face — yet. He has not invoked the Insurrection Act but rather Section 12406 of Title 10 of the U.S. Code, which authorizes the president to deploy the Guard to protect federal agents in the course of performing their duties. But it does violate one of the more serious 'democratic norms' both parties seem to revere only when the other party is in power. And it's a norm worth honouring. Recommended video One of the reasons it's worth honouring is that norm violations beget more norm violations. Indeed, that was partly Newsom's point. The mere announcement of activating the Guard appeared to arouse even more mayhem, and that in turn makes Trump's decision more politically advantageous. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. And that brings me to why this won't end well. Every time a protester burns a car, hurls a rock or smashes a window, the protester ceases to be a lawful demonstrator and becomes a rioter. And contrary to a lot of left-wing romantic nonsense, rioting is not only wrong and illegal, it's politically unpopular. Then-Massachusetts Gov. Calvin Coolidge became a national star by calling in the Massachusetts Guard in response to the 1919 Boston police strike, which had ignited riots and looting. In the 1968 election, Richard Nixon used the riots after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination to win the presidency on a promise of restoring law and order. The fringe left has a long love affair with the 'propaganda of the deed,' a stupid concept holding that direct or revolutionary action persuades the masses to align with their cause. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. In America, it almost never works. But for some reason, too many mainstream progressives get tongue-tied when it comes to condemning their fringe unequivocally. The political utility of domestic unrest is far more acute and consequential under Trump because he subscribes to his own theory of the propaganda of the deed. Trump has long been enamoured of using the military to quash domestic unrest. In a 1990 Playboy interview, he expressed admiration for the Chinese Communist Party's willingness to display 'the power of strength' in crushing the Tiananmen protests. In his first term, he reportedly wanted troops to fire on protesters after the murder of George Floyd. Since the beginning of his second term, his administration has been pushing political, legal and rhetorical claims that he should be granted wartime powers, most notably on trade and immigration. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. I think those claims are largely sinister nonsense as a matter of law, facts and those pesky democratic norms. And politically, when the headlines are full of stories about families being separated or legal immigrants being arrested for writing college newspaper editorials, the administration is on defence. But when rioters are setting Waymo cabs on fire, the debate is exactly where he wants it. Democrats and many media figures get caught splitting hairs, mouthing pieties about the right to protest, while social media and cable news are flooded with images of violence and destruction. I see no reason to doubt that there will be enough people willing to give Trump exactly what he wants. And portentously, unlike during his first term, the enablers aren't just in the streets, they're in the White House. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Various cabinet secretaries, White House officials and the vice president are all trying to one-up each other with talk of invasion, insurrection and 'liberate Los Angeles.' I sincerely hope I am wrong, but given the cowardice of Congress and the limitations of the courts, I think this is leading, perhaps inexorably, to a contest of competing theories of the propaganda of the deed. That may or may not end well for Trump but it will certainly end poorly for the United States. — Jonah Goldberg is editor-in-chief of The Dispatch and the host of The Remnant podcast. His Twitter handle is @JonahDispatch. Sports Editorial Cartoons World Relationships Sunshine Girls
Toronto Star
28 minutes ago
- Toronto Star
Carney's task at G7 will be to keep the group alive as experts question the outcome
OTTAWA - As Prime Minister Mark Carney gets ready to host U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders at the G7 summit in Alberta, analysts say Canada's most important goal will be to keep the G7 from falling apart — even if that means not issuing a joint statement. 'Keeping this informal international organization together will, I think, be a mark of success,' said Sen. Peter Boehm, a former diplomat who played a central role in Canada's participation in the G7 for decades.
