Canadian Officials Shed Light on Strategy to Prepare for Next US Administration

Preparing for the arrival of a new U.S. administration in the coming months, Canadian officials say the strategy has involved talking business with Republicans and policy with Democrats. “The good thing is that when we talk to our Republican friends, they say ‘we like you because you talk business,’ and when we talk to Democrats, they say ‘we like you because you align on policy,'” Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said on Aug. 27 in Halifax. “So our strategy is very relevant,” added Champagne, who spoke alongside International Trade Minister Mary Ng and Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman, on the last day of the Liberal cabinet retreat....