OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has repeatedly accused the Liberal government of entrenching Canada’s economic dependence on the United States.
But political scientists say the reality is more complex, noting a broad trend toward continental integration of national economies that began almost 40 years ago.
On the federal election trail, Poilievre decried a “lost Liberal decade” of economic stagnation. He blamed former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s government for failing to advance resource projects, allowing Canadian energy to head to the United States at a discount and losing billions of investment dollars to American companies.
It is “kind of silly” to blame Trudeau for Canada’s economic reliance on the
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