Mark McQueen: Canada has win-win deals it can make to satisfy Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Trump would take pleasure in securing $8.8 billion US of additional work for a Mississippi-based shipyard and Canada can certainly put the ships to good use while we wait for Irving Shipbuilding to deliver on Stephen Harper's 2011 $25 billion combat ship contract award.
58% : Trump cut his negotiating teeth in New York City, where everything "is just business."
53% : Who wants to explain to Trump why Ottawa believes we have better insight into the world's global hot spots than the CIA, FBI and NSA?
44% : Many hope that Trump will suddenly change his mind on the tariff front, but during last week's Yale University CEO Summit in New York City, 53 per cent of the 200 senior U.S. executives in attendance supported the tariff threat as a bargaining chip.
34% : If Trump thought we were serious about the security of North America, he'd see Canada as a partner, not a conduit for crime.
27% : If just one per cent of America's 11.7 million "undocumented" individuals think Trump will make good on his threat of "mass deportations," Toronto and Montreal had better get ready to welcome another 117,000 refugees in 2025.
26% : Yet Trump has every reason to be dubious when you consider that, as I wrote in August, Canada Border Services Agency had 37,326 active immigration arrest warrants outstanding in 2023.
18% : Donald Trump will be inaugurated in a matter of days and there's no coherent strategy to tackle these three key issues:* 25 per cent tariffs, which would hobble an already weak Canadian economy.

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