Reading Time: 3 minutes The federal government must act quickly on 3 fronts if it is to head off economic disaster
Tag: Canada US relations
Canada can’t afford to be bullied by Trump on trade
Reading Time: 4 minutes What the president really wants is the surrender of Canadian sovereignty, to create a semi-colonial dependency
Canada’s trade hurdle is all about supply management
Reading Time: 3 minutes The federal government has not explicitly stated that supply management is non-negotiable
Stark contrast between U.S. energy boom, Canada’s lethargy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada’s energy sector is struggling primarily because of poor government policies. The U.S. shows a way out of this mess
America’s plan to wage war on Canada in the 1930s
Reading Time: 7 minutes U.S. tactics included troop invasions, use of poison gas and aerial bombings of major Canadian cities
How we can avoid a devastating trade war with the U.S.
Reading Time: 5 minutes We need a smart, realistic strategy for negotiations, starting with giving up our dairy supply management system
Canada needs a bold response to U.S. business tax cuts
Reading Time: 4 minutes Reducing corporate taxes doesn’t distort economic decisions or add complexity to the tax system. It does spur the economy
Resolving Canada’s trade quagmire in the age of Trump
Reading Time: 3 minutes We must make a major concession to protect the auto sector and that may mean phasing out our farm supply management system
Canada shouldn’t stray from climate commitments in face of criticism
Reading Time: 4 minutes We can and should stand firm against outside pressure – principally from the U.S. – and internal pressure from people like Doug Ford
Protectionism on the rise as NAFTA talks stall
Reading Time: 3 minutes Against the backdrop of an increasingly fraught political relationship between the U.S. and Mexico, what should Canada do?