American industry leaders couldn’t have made their message to U.S. President Donald Trump any clearer.

Over three days of public hearings in Washington, nearly 150 speakers representing every major sector of the economy depicted the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) as essential to the success of their businesses.

Yet even while the hearings were unfolding, purportedly to give the White House advice on whether to extend CUSMA when it comes up for review in 2026, Trump and his trade representative floated letting the agreement expire or withdrawing from it altogether.

After a year of Trump posturing about Canada becoming the 51st state, disparaging his northern neighbour as "nasty" on trade, and slapping tariffs on many of its exports, perhaps it comes as no surprise that he’d threate

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