Canada’s defence minister responds to Trump’s new National Security Strategy

By Judy Trinh – CTV News

The weaponization of trade to “strengthen American power and pre-eminence” is entrenched in the new U.S. National Security Strategy recently released by the White House.

In the prologue, U.S. President Donald Trump writes that the U.S. “will continue to develop every dimension of our national strength, and we will make America safer, richer, freer, greater and more powerful than ever before.”

The Trump doctrine raises new concerns that Canada’s sovereignty will come under even greater economic and political pressure.