I'm not from Canada, but Trudeau is an idiot, plain & simple.
As far as trade goes, you either have free trade or you don't; whether you do or not, in some instances, some industries will get hurt.
If you start managing it via lots if pokitical special interest controls, then you end up where we are today.
As far as I'm concerned there needs to be some level of dialog about balancing trade so everyone comes as close to net Zero as possible, taking into account that there will likely be some need for managing certain things.
When a country has a huge imbalance of trade, such as the U.S. with China, if allowed to continue, the U.S. will surely go broke.
No country can only be a consumer & make nothing..............soon "nothing" will be the value of it's currency & soon after will come massive inflation via printing money or the debtor country will cease to exist.
MM
