Justin Trudeau congratulates Donald Trump on USA election victory

If Trump wanted to discuss changes, Canada would come to the table, he said. Washington state and Seattle were among the leading sources of queries.

Will it be the boisterous and controversial character that swept through the Republican primaries or will it be the more contrite and unifying man that spoke early Wednesday morning?

“Seattleites searching for homes in Canada equates at most to window shopping”, McLaughlin said.

“We saw that in the USA election, we saw that in Brexit, and it’s a message for Mr. Trudeau, who is more interested in impressing bureaucrats at the United Nations with his big policies that are really hurting working people”, she said.

“When George W. Bush was elected, people talked about it as well, and I didn’t witness much of an impact in Canadian immigration”, he said in an interview. Yet Trump’s vitriol was exclusively directed toward Mexico, not Canada.

When he acknowledged that many of them might have been up late watching the US election returns, there were scattered boos from the crowd.

“I’m going tell our NAFTA partners that I intend to immediately renegotiate the terms of that agreement to get a better deal for our workers”.

Search interest for “election results 2016” outside America was highest in Zambia, followed by Philippines and South Africa. It’s an issue for manufacturers too.

The 1994 accord, which binds Canada, Mexico and the United States, unites 530 million consumers and represents more than one-quarter of global GDP.

Trump’s promise to upgrade NAFTA was a major point in his election campaign. Of particular concern to Canada is Trump’s vow to renegotiate NAFTA but MacNaughton said any agreement can be improved.

“The economic relationship between Canada and the United States is of benefit to both parties, and I think President Trump will want to continue that”, he told CTV’s Power Play.

The bigger questions, said Vaughan, relate to energy policy and Trump’s readiness to roll back executive orders made by Obama.

However, a vast majority of people are unsettled with the new president.

“If the those changes subsequently compromise our ability to reassure the Americans that the Canadian border is not something to be anxious about, the repercussions for the Canadian economy would be catastrophic”, he said.

Canada’s support of the Paris climate change agreement puts the two countries on “a collision course” on climate change, he added. As an example now Canada has a critical need for a new softwood lumber deal with the United States and it remains unclear what, if any, progress our Liberal government has made on this file.

Canada spent just one per cent of GDP on defence past year, the smallest amount since before the Second World War, NATO said. Drury says in the next month, it would be interesting to see if the intent to immigrate would translate into real action.