In preparation for the arrival of a new U.S. administration in the coming months, Canadian officials say they have devised a strategy that in part involves talking business with Republicans and policy with Democrats.
“The good thing is that when we talk to our Republican friends, they say ‘we like you because you talk business,’ and when we talk to Democrats, they say ‘we like you because you align on policy,’” Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said on Aug. 27 in Halifax.