Canada can’t trade its way back to prosperity
Canadians blame an unpredictable America and shop Europe for new partners. The real failure is domestic. Canada produces less per hour than the Europe it courts, and only Ottawa can restart the engine at home;
By Frontier Centre for Public Policy -- Marco Navarro-Genie—— Bio and Archives--July 6, 2026
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-- Frontier Centre for Public Policy
Relations between Ottawa and Washington have soured, and the therapy suggestions arrived on schedule: look across the Atlantic. Europe, the argument goes, is a stable counterweight to an unpredictable America. The Economist even floated Canadian membership in the European Union.
The premise is appealing, but it mistakes Canada’s problem. No trading partner can compensate for an economy that has spent years producing too little from each hour of work.
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