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William Watson: We should not sign free trade’s death warrant

It's not clear Americans favour Donald Trump's aggressive protectionism. We should hold out and wait for a new Congress to reassert itself

The fallout from the failure of trade talks with the United States has made a number of things clear, most important among them our strategic choice.

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To clear out non-strategic things first: it turns out “streaming discoverability” for French-language movies and TV shows — a made-up name for what a grocery store would call “prime zone” placement space — is not a red line for the Americans. It shouldn’t be for us, either, though it seems it was. I suspect most francophone Canadians are capable of navigating a........

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