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OTTAWA — Dominic LeBlanc beat cancer. Now, just five years later, Canada’s minister for Canada-U.S. trade is battling another malignant threat: U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. LeBlanc, the Carney government’s minister of just about everything, has spent much of this week in Washington, D.C. as the lead cabinet minister trying to navigate the choppy and unpredictable waters of the Trump administration’s trade policies. In many ways, LeBlanc was an extreme long shot to be in this position as the cabinet’s point person tasked with one of the country’s most important challenges...