The Conversation: Why the 2025 federal budget won’t really make Canada strong

November 14, 2025 —

Article written by Dr. Robert Chernomas, Professor Of Economics, University of Manitoba:

Canada’s 2025 federal budget, and those that follow in the coming years, may prove to be the most important since the beginning of the Second World War. Canada’s longstanding, co-dependent economic relationship with the United States has abruptly and involuntarily ended following U.S. President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs and threats of annexation.

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