Canada Must Join Trump Train or Fall Further Behind

Trade standoff an opportunity for introspection, spring cleaning

U.S. President Donald Trump is greeted by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau on the first day of the G7 Summit in La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada, on June 8, 2018. Geoff Robins/ AFP/Getty Images

Fresh research offers ominous news for Canada. An index of labor-market performance across U.S. states and Canadian provinces places all 10 of the latter in the bottom half. It’s the economy, Canada!

For example, the four Atlantic provinces—New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island—are in the bottom five out of 60. Only struggling West Virginia, in 58th, stopped these provinces from a clean sweep of the ladder’s bottom rungs.