{"id":57612,"date":"2025-03-20T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/03\/20\/canada-ignored-the-warning-signs-that-the-u-s-was-changing\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T10:00:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T10:00:44","slug":"canada-ignored-the-warning-signs-that-the-u-s-was-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/03\/20\/canada-ignored-the-warning-signs-that-the-u-s-was-changing\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada ignored the warning signs that the U.S. was changing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<header aria-label=\"Beginning of Article\" class=\"article-header article-header--story\">\n<nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\" data-aqa=\"nav-breadcrumb\">\n<p>Breadcrumb Trail Links<\/p>\n<ol class=\"breadcrumbs__items list-unstyled\">\n<li class=\"breadcrumbs__item\">News<\/li>\n<li class=\"breadcrumbs__item\">Economy<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/nav>\n<div class=\"article-header__detail\">\n<div class=\"article-header__detail__texts\">\n<p class=\"article-subtitle\">Opinion: Emergence of the New Right and their interest in tariffs was an open secret<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<p><span class=\"published-date__since\">Published Mar 20, 2025<\/span> \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 <span class=\"updated-date__since\">Last updated 51\u00a0minutes ago<\/span> \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 <span class=\"published-date__word-count\">4 minute read<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta__bottom\">\n<div class=\"bookmark-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"popover\" data-aqa=\"popover\" data-click-to-appear=\"True\" data-container=\"\" data-container-offset=\"\" data-no-style=\"\" data-popover-component=\"\" data-position=\"top\" data-sticky=\"\" data-tail-offset=\"200\" data-tail-position=\"right\"><button class=\"popover__trigger bookmark-button\"><span class=\"save-article-button save-article-button--default\" title=\"Save article\" data-article-id=\"b6224dbc-ed39-4d81-a3f4-1c772ac8f24c\" data-evt-skip-click=\"true\"\/><\/button><\/p>\n<div aria-describedby=\"popover-desc-popover-bookmark\" class=\"popover__content\" hidden=\"\" role=\"dialog\">\n<div class=\"popover__content__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"popover__content__text\" id=\"popover-desc-popover-bookmark\">\n<div class=\"bookmark__popover__content\">\n<p>You can save this article by registering for free here. 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Instead, in an act of wilfull blindness, we chose nostalgia and hope over realism. That choice was made through a combination of bad information and analysis driven largely by a refusal to let go of a romanticized relationship with a United States that is no longer there and will not return.<\/p>\n<p>The country has been driving into a hostile new environment while looking through the rearview mirror. Rearview mirrors are great for backing up \u2014 going forward, not so much.<\/p>\n<p>There will at some point need to be a reckoning for our actions that have made a bad situation worse.<\/p>\n<p>But, looking forward, the ability to get off of our back foot is within our control and it starts by changing the institutions, mental and physical structures that have shaped and continue to shape the thinking that has led us into the current situation.<\/p>\n<p data-async=\"\">There were clear signals going back five years that if U.S. President Donald Trump were to return, so would tariffs. There was clear writing from within the America First movement over the past few years as to what those tariffs might look like. A few Canadians read former U.S. trade representative Robert Lighthizer\u2019s treatise on economic policy, and some read Project 2025, the blueprint for a second administration. But this work came from a broad movement. In the case of Project 2025, fifty U.S. think-tanks were involved. A visit to the Heritage Foundation, which organized the project, was not enough to fully understand what had been developed. Wider outreach and deeper investigation were clearly needed. 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Things such as economic modelling, identifying vulnerable industries and thinking through the counter-measures and assistance programs we are now rushing, in a panic, to develop and deploy. In November, when Trump won the general election, we would have been prepared to move from quiet to active preparation and the implementation of well-reasoned responses.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, we chose to believe that this would not happen because it did not make sense, in our understanding of the U.S. and traditional economic theory and policy, that the Americans would inflict this sort of pain on themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, they have done so \u2014\u00a0 just as they said they would.<\/p>\n<p>Our challenge goes beyond the immediate, endless challenges from a Trump administration. The U.S. is in the midst of generational change that will continue to evolve beyond the remaining two hundred plus weeks of a Trump administration. 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