NEW - Canada's US Relationship Isn't the Ceiling Anymore

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Sep 17, 2026 · 19m

A stalled trade deal with the United States gets reframed here as something other than a loss. Jamie Ellerton argues Canadians have been treating a shrinking relationship with the US as the new ceiling on what's possible, when it might actually be the floor, a starting point for figuring out where the real ceiling could be instead.

That argument runs alongside a genuine mystery in Ottawa: reports that Canada pursued a special status with the EU that nobody, including the politicians debating it, can fully define yet. Lindsay Broadhead weighs in on whether it belongs in Parliament now or once…