A few months ago, I dined with some of Canada’s business leaders and Robert Lighthizer, a key trade adviser to the next US president, Donald Trump.
I expected a calm meal – Canadian leaders are usually so polite that a senior American politician once jokingly described them to me as the “herbivores” of global affairs.
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Gillian Tett is chair of the editorial board and editor-at-large, US of the Financial Times. She writes weekly columns, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues.