It was the right winger, Harper, who reduced Canada's defence spending to 0.8%, not Trudeau.

Canadian banks don't launder money in the US. Jeez, the American banks have been pretty sleazy operations in the past.

EVERY country, including the US, has reduced interest rates to crazily low figures in a desperate effort to encourage growth or at least stop the economy from grinding to a halt. There's also the fact that so much debt is held by Canadians that rates will have to go up very slowly. Trump can't make Canada increase rates, who knows even what he'll lean on the Fed to do?!