How Canada's next PM should fight against Trump—and support Israel

The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner

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With just a few days left in Canada’s federal election campaign, U.S. president Donald Trump has once again inserted himself onto the ballot question: the American leader repeated on Wednesday that Canada would “cease to exist” without the United States. Trump also threatened to further increase tariffs on Canadian cars and auto parts. The sabre-rattling about Canada’s future, on economic independence and our status on the world stage should be top of mind for voters in Monday’s election, says Alan Kessel. And he would know: Kessel has spent more than 40 years as one of the Canadian government’s most senior legal advisors and diplomats. Kessel, of Ottawa, recently retired from the public service, leaving him to speak more freely about some of the critical international files he’s handled, and what’s at stake, especially the North American free trade agreement Canada signed in 2018 with the U.S. and Mexico—which Trump now wants to blow up. Kessel also worked on cases involving Israel that were brought to the United Nations’ International Court of Justice, and to the nearby Criminal Court, which recently issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On today’s episode of The CJN Daily, Alan Kessel joins to discuss why Trump’s trade war on Canada is illegal, what Canada’s next leader should do about it, and what’s behind the recent Liberal government’s completely different approaches when it comes to supporting Ukraine, but not Israel.

Related links

Read more about the impact of Trump’s tariff trade war on Canadian Jewish business owners, in The CJN
What Canadian leaders think about the ICJ’s ruling on Israel’s conduct in Gaza, in January 2024, in The CJN.
Why rising antisemitism is convincing some Canadian Jews to vote Conservative this election.

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Host and writer: Ellin Bessner (@ebessner)
Production team: Zachary Kauffman (senior producer), Andrea Varsany (producer), Michael Fraiman (executive producer), Marc Weisblott (editorial director)
Music: Dov Beck-Levine

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