India, Jan. 26 -- The current state of foreign policy in Canada is in a state of readjustment driven more by necessity than routine. This is given the developing conflict with the US, driven in large part by President Trump's almost confrontational economic tactics and rhetoric. However, against the current background, India emerges as the linchpin to re-expanding Canadian foreign policy beyond North America and there is clearly a new sense of moving away from the more confrontational position in the past.
The threat of retaliatory tariffs by President Trump, including the threat of a blanket 100 percent tariff on imports from Canada, has made the Canadian government feel vulnerable. The Canadian government feels that the economic pressure...