The best hope for Canada in fighting a trade war with Trump may lie in U.S. courts
Geoffrey A. Manne, founder and president of ICLE, was quoted in this story from The Globe and Mail on Trump’s tariffs and Canada. Read the full article here.
In the U.S., meanwhile, the free hand enjoyed by Mr. Trump is largely a function of decisions made by federal legislators. There are good reasons for that, said Geoffrey Manne, founder of the International Center for Law and Economics, a non-partisan research group.“There’s certainly a valid argument that says, in the case of the kind of real emergency that was contemplated by IEEPA, you want to give that power to the president. You want to have an entity that can act decisively and quickly.”But it also amounts to ”a kind of fecklessness on the part of Congress,” he said. “It likes not have to be responsible for things.”