We think a cleaner approach would be to simply invest in US companies in this scenario. Operationally, if a Canadian company has a good deal of US exposure, they would likely be impacted by tariffs in some form or fashion. Owning a US company with US focused operations would avoid this outright. Further, while geographic diversification of revenues is a good thing, we find that companies that trade on the TSX tend to move more in line with the TSX on a day-to-day basis regardless of the source of their revenues. Put another way, if Canadian markets 'go down' because of tariff issues, it does not necessarily mean that the companies that are more insulated from these impacts on the TSX will actually avoid the market impacts in the short-term at least.
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