Canada–EU Trade Loss Shocks Washington as Trade Routes Shift Away From the U.S.

You must understand something.  The post war world of american dominance has always rested upon a gentlemans agreement on Trade flows in which Canada chose not to push rather obvious geographical advanateges the country enjoys.

The moment Trump chose to disrupt that agreement, Canadian policy makers were cut loose.  Now Canada can move full on to divert EU shipping from New york to Montreal and yes Chicago for seaway compliant vessals.  Either port puts cargo on rail easily reaching into the entire contenetal USA  as quickly and as easily as out of New York.

Worse, Midwest grain can reach both europe and Asia much easier along those same routes.   this was always true even before the seaway but the rail system has become super robust and highly competative.

I used to feel sorry for CPR, because CNR was eating their lunch with the direct Prince rupert to chicago route then extended down the entire Mississippi yalley to say nothing of their route through the toronto montreal corridor.  Then CPR merged with Kansas RR a couple years back and now provide a direct land bridge to mexico City.  WTF?  Two competing massive rail networks including a lot of dormant right of ways holding two of the most prized rail routes and rail systems in north America.

These are continental systems fully organized top to bottom to drain trade goods out of the continent to europe and asia and now to south America.  All bypassing the Gulf, the USA East Coast and the USA weat coast..  Gentlemens agreements be damned.

And this is why it is happening so quickly,   It was always been built but never quite exploited.

now imagine Canada rebuilding the St Lawrence Seaway to match the Panama Canal.    It is now over sixty years old and a rebuild would become timely.  The Panamax canal can be built sub paraell even to avoid disruption.

Canada–EU Trade Loss Shocks Washington as Trade Routes Shift Away From the U.S.

Canada is quietly rerouting hundreds of billions of dollars in trade away from the United States, reshaping North American supply chains and weakening Washington’s long-standing economic dominance. As Canada deepens integration with the European Union, investment, infrastructure, and logistics are shifting north—leaving American manufacturing, ports, and transport networks facing real and immediate losses. This video breaks down how the Canada–EU trade corridor is emerging, why U.S. tariffs and policy instability accelerated the shift, and what this structural realignment means for jobs, investment, and geopolitical power in the years ahead.

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