Re: Our strategy for dealing with the Trump tariffs needs to be negotiation — Jack M. Mintz, Jan. 24

Neither Justin Trudeau, Chrystia Freeland nor Mark Carney can be trusted to navigate Canada’s response to U.S. tariffs on Canadian exports, particularly if their responses include a ban or export tariff on oil and gas resources. Having blocked any attempt to diversify foreign markets for Canadian oil and gas, despite entreaties from our other friends and allies to do so, and having stymied attempts to build new pipelines to reach those markets, Trudeau and Freeland have no moral authority to use our oil and gas industry as a pawn in responding to President Donald Trump’s tariffs.