Canada Says Sovereignty Not Negotiable as US Trade Dispute Escalates

The notable shift here is that a trade dispute has crossed into questions of national sovereignty, which raises the political cost of any eventual compromise on tariffs or market access. For cross-border supply chains, energy, and agriculture, the practical risk is that commercial negotiations become hostage to a symbolic standoff neither side can easily de-escalate. Whether this remains rhetorical or hardens into policy is the open question to watch.