Concession Carney faces his Neville Chamberlain moment

Fen Hampson/The Globe and Mail: But Canada’s problem is not just that Mr. Trump’s idea of a negotiation is to ask for the moon and give very little upfront in return. Mr. Trump also thinks the Prime Minister is weak and can be rolled over just like the Europeans, British and Japanese in their own negotiations with the Americans. Mr. Carney hasn’t helped himself either by capitulating to Mr. Trump on the digital services tax last year and, more recently, on sharing toll revenues from the Gordie Howe International Bridge. Neither has he done so with his I-said-it-but-I-didn’t-really-mean-it apology delivered in a private phone call to U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bissent after his blistering global “rupture” speech at Davos…