Canada’s Economy After Trump: What Comes Next?
Tuesday, Mar 03, 2026
1:30pm - 3:30pm
Lecture by:
Jim Stanford
U.S. President Donald Trump’s erratic trade actions (including dramatic new tariffs, demands for other policy changes, and even threats to annex Canada) are causing enormous uncertainty and damage to Canada’s economy. This presentation will review Trump’s (false) claims about the nature of the Canada-U.S. trade relationship, and whether Canada is truly “subsidized” by the U.S. as he claims. It will review the current and likely effects of his actions on the national economic outlooks. And it will consider the best responses from Canada to protect against these actions from our former best friend and neighbour, and what is required to build a national economy that is truly sovereign, value-added, and sustainable.
About Jim Stanford
Jim Stanford
Jim Stanford is Economist and Director of the Centre for Future Work, a labour economics think tank based in Vancouver, B.C..
Jim is one of Canada’s best-known economists. He served for over 20 years as Economist and Director of Policy with Unifor, Canada’s largest private-sector trade union (formerly the Canadian Auto Workers). He is quoted frequently in the print and broadcast media, and contributes a regular column to the Toronto Star. He is also the Harold Innis Industry Professor in Economics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, and an Honorary Professor in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney.
Jim received his Ph.D. in Economics from the New School for Social Research in New York. He also holds an M.Phil. in Economics from Cambridge University, and a B.A. (Hons.) in Economics from the University of Calgary.
Jim is the author of Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism (second edition published by Pluto Books in 2015), which has been published in six languages.