U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff war will have far-reaching consequences for all Canadians, putting hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk and possibly reshaping our entire economy and relationship with the United States, as well as with the rest of the world. Canada needs a government that puts the country ahead of its own party politics.

To that end, Parliament must be recalled. To have prorogued Parliament for a Liberal leadership race knowing Trump’s tariffs were in the cards was unconscionable. But to leave the House of Commons shuttered in such a dire emergency would leave the Liberals open to a charge that they are betraying the country.