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Over the weekend, China’s ambassador to Canada said that if Ottawa drops its tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles, it will drop agricultural tariffs on products like canola.

There goes Team Canada.

The rock-solid group of premiers fighting as one in a trade war are being chipped apart, their united front undone not just by the threats of U.S. President Donald Trump but by the promises of the Chinese ambassador Wang Di.

Now Canada, caught in a trade war with two capricious superpower partners, is negotiating against itself. This country might as well put up a sign inviting bigger players to come to fleece us.

Over the weekend, Mr. Wang made a public offer: If Canada drops its 100-per-cent tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles, Beijing will drop its punishing tariffs

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