Economy

"It came like a bolt from the blue," Douglas Porter, chief economist of the Bank of Montreal (BMO), told DW, referring to Trump's attack. "There was no groundswell among his supporters that saw Canada as a big villain ... so I find this one a bit more unnerving."

I remain utterly befuddled by all of these apparently well credentialed people's inability to recognize patterns, or what happens when you let the spoiled brat's tantrums work.

Trump did this last time so he could throw out NAFTA and slap his name on the new deal. He's doing it this time because it worked last time, and he thinks he can extort us. There's nothing "out of the blue" about it this time around.

This is expected behaviour.