USMCA exit signals
President DONALD TRUMP is flirting with Canada’s worst-case scenario — setting the wheels in motion for the U.S. to pull out of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
Mike Blanchfield
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Pipeline deal is not a ‘baked cake,’ Canada's energy minister says
One day after a pipeline plan for Alberta sparked backlash and a Cabinet defection, Canada’s energy minister emphasized the project is far from a done deal. “We’re baking the cake,” Tim Hodgson told POLITICO on Friday from British Columbia. “We’re just buying the ingredients right now. Let’s not opine on how the cake tastes till it’s a little bit further...
GOP lawmaker demands $300B in defense dues from Canada
Republican lawmaker Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina says it’s all good and well that Canada is finally meeting its NATO defense spending commitments, but Canada should make up for two decades of back dues — to the tune of $300 billion. “Can we do a makeup payment for the 20 years of shortfalls as well?” Tillis told a Saturday...
Inside Carney’s ‘chaotic’ Egypt trip
BEHIND THE SCENES — They scrambled to get there on time, after the last-minute invite to DONALD TRUMP’s Gaza peace summit in Egypt over the weekend. But the president kept them waiting.
Canada’s Man on the Front Lines of Global Disorder - Outgoing UN Ambassador Bob Rae is ready to be a bit less diplomatic.
In the five years that Bob Rae has served as Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations, he’s seen the global order face immense disruption. Yet he’s found himself drawn back repeatedly to a book written decades ago: George Orwell’s 1984.
Wheels up for Berlin
Prime Minister MARK CARNEY is headed to Germany next week. Our colleagues in Berlin learned today in a government briefing that Chancellor FRIEDRICH MERZ will welcome Carney on Tuesday morning. The pair will talk about a variety of bilateral foreign and economic issues, including tariffs and the war in Ukraine.
Carney’s promise to take on Trump on trade will have to wait
Fresh off his election victory, Prime Minister Mark Carney promised to immediately take on U.S. President Donald Trump on trade. But the White House likely won’t turn its attention to North American trade talks until later this summer — a timeline that might actually work out better for Canada.
Lighthizer gives private trade-war advice to Canada’s conservatives
An architect of President Donald Trump’s aggressive trade policy told a closed-door Canadian audience Friday that the two neighbors can recover from this period of unprecedented tensions. Robert Lighthizer, the pro-tariff former U.S. trade representative during Trump’s first term, told a conference of Canadian conservatives in Ottawa that their country can help mend the tattered relationship by spending more on...
Pete Hoekstra is poised to become US ambassador to Canada at a tense moment
Pete Hoekstra proved an able firefighter for Donald Trump last summer, extinguishing a Republican Party civil war in his home state of Michigan and ultimately helping ensure the crucial state voted red on Nov. 5. For his efforts, Hoekstra has reaped an unlikely reward: He is set to become the U.S. president’s ambassador to Canada.
Meet the Trump whisperer trying to save Canada’s economy
With less than two months left as prime minister, his party sagging in the polls, and former colleagues vying to replace him as Liberal leader, Justin Trudeau has turned to a loyal childhood friend to handle Ottawa’s most urgent problem: a threatened trade war with Donald Trump that could sink the economy.
Budget 2024: A major step forward for Indigenous project ownership
A document imbued with incrementalism offered at least one big energy policy advance with the long-awaited Indigenous Loan Guarantee Program The federal government’s new approach to communicating the details of its 2024 federal budget — telling us about it in advance – has become the attention grabber that it was intended to be. In a staged media rollout in recent...