TRILLIUM TALK: Team Canada crashes the U.S. Capitol

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On the present this afternoon is ParliamentToday editor Katherine DeClerq, who has adopted Doug Ford’s marketing campaign detour to Washington, D.C. for 2 days of conferences with U.S. politicians and enterprise leaders.

Ford is unquestionably not alone on his anti-tariff tour. All of his fellow provincial premiers are with him in the U.S. capitol, together with federal Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc.

As DeClerq stories, the “Crew Canada” contingent is cautiously optimistic they’ll persuade Republicans that U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to impose punishing tariffs on Canada just isn’t in anybody’s finest curiosity.

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