Opportunities to work together with the U.S.
The Business Council of Canada believes that Canada has the opportunity to strengthen its relationship with the United States going forward. Our statement and views were featured in several media stories about the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
“The first thing that popped into my mind is, where are the potential opportunities for alignment between the United States and Canada and a second Trump presidency? And I think that’s something that in the business community we’re particularly interested in thinking about.”
John Dickerman, Vice President, Business Council of Canada
”[Canada should] remind Americans that this deal has been good for them.”
John Dickerman, Vice President, Business Council of Canada
“Concern is probably too conservative of a word to use there. It could possibly be an emergency for this U.S.-Canada relationship going forward, particularly in the context of how [the mandatory review of CUSMA in 2026] is looked at.”
John Dickerman, Vice President, Business Council of Canada
“America is interested in its own economic security and its own national security, and it is making a list of friends and foes, and everything in between. And we need to make sure that we are on the top, not near on the top, of the friends list.”
Goldy Hyder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Business Council of Canada
“The work that we have to do is always to remind Americans to take into consideration the fact that their supply chains are extremely integrated with Canada, that we make things together, and that Canada is their number one customer.”
Louise Blais, Senior Special Advisor, Business Council of Canada
“This is a message we try to bring to our American friends,” she said. “Not only are we your number one customer, our exports to you … makes you more competitive.”
Louise Blais, Senior Special Advisor, Business Council of Canada
« Oui, il y a une frontière. Nous sommes deux pays souverains, mais nous sommes des partenaires au point où notre économie est intégrée de façon très bénéfique pour les deux parties.»
Louise Blais, Senior Special Advisor, Business Council of Canada
”We’ve never exported more to them and I think they will need more regardless of what a president does or a policy does.”
Heather Exner-Pirot, Special Advisor, Business Council of Canada
