In my last article, I wrote about the constitutional fault line exposed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s use of emergency tariffs. Now comes the more challenging part: how Canada must defend itself.

For decades, Canada’s greatest diplomatic myth was that friendship equals fairness. That illusion ended the day Washington invoked a “national emergency” to tax our exports. The tariffs didn’t emerge from strategy. They emerged from whim — from a political reflex that treats allies as supplicants and trade law as suggestion.

I’ve testified three times before U.S. and Canadian trade authorities this year. After my testimony, officials ask the same question: “What can Canada do?” Each time, I give the same answer: stop asking Washington for permission to defend yourselves. Nobody in Ottawa want

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