The Free Press: Secure ties now or risk being left behind

Some question the value of Manitoba setting up shop in the U.S. capital, where there are so many competing interests and while the president has ditched trade deals and rules.

“What are we going to get out of that?” asked Prof. Barry Prentice at the University of Manitoba’s Asper School of Business.

Trade deals, such as the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement signed by Trump in 2018 during his first term, have since been undone by Trump, whose tariffs in 2025 are being challenged for violating the North American free trade pact.

“How many lobbyists are there in Washington, D.C. and how loud would our voice be to try and get anything done?” Prentice asked.

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