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Canada authorized the implementation of a digital-services tax, a move that threatens to trigger trade retaliation from Congress and the Biden administration.A notice published late Wednesday indicated that the cabinet, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, ordered the digital-services tax to be implemented June 28, or last Friday.
Canadian officials are delivering a unified message for U.S. leaders: The country can help drive America’s economy higher as long as Canada maintains duty-free access to the world’s largest economy after November’s election.Three officials — Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne, Trade Minister Mary Ng and Canada’s ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman — have crisscrossed the U.S. in recent months meeting with members of Congress, state governors and local business leaders to state their case about Canada’s importance to their southern neighbors.
Canada’s industry minister is weighing a list of a dozen foreign grocery companies—from the U.S., Germany, Turkey and Portugal, among others—to potentially lure to the country in a bid to increase competition in the domestic food-retailing sector.Since the fall, Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne has criticized Canada’s three biggest grocery companies—Loblaw, Metro and Empire—for failing to be transparent on the causes of food inflation, and told Canada’s antitrust watchdog he expected the agency to “confront abuses” in the domestic marketplace. At one point, Champagne and other officials spoke of a windfall tax on grocery-chain profits unless prices fo
Back in 1996, Louis MacDonald was among the first fishermen to acquire a license from Canada to catch baby eels. Over the decades, he has hired 20 people to catch and ship them to East Asia, where they are raised to maturity and demand is strongest for the crunchy Japanese-inspired grilled eel filets known as unagi.This year, MacDonald won’t be sending any elvers, as the baby eels are known. He has let his employees go.
Canadians could face higher monthly bills from Spotify, Apple, Amazon.com and other audio-streaming services under a government proposal that would require the companies to make annual financial contributions to the country’s artists.
Canada’s bid to kickstart the construction of millions of houses to address an affordability crisis faces a sizable obstacle: a shortage of workers to build abodes.The warning was conveyed late last year to senior officials at Canada’s finance department in a memo that was obtained by The Wall Street Journal through the country’s access-to-information laws. Among the key concerns raised is that apprenticeships for skilled trades fell to a decade-plus low.
Canada-owned Trans Mountain, which operates a crude-oil pipeline in western Canada that is under expansion, said Friday that it would take a write-down on the asset because of higher interest rates.Trans Mountain said that it booked a net loss in the third quarter because of a goodwill impairment charge of C$888 million Canadian dollars, or the equivalent of $651 million. The Canadian government acquired the Trans Mountain pipeline system in 2018 for C$4.5 billion from Kinder Morgan, after the U.S. company threatened to abandon a proposed expansion, aimed at capitalizing on Asian demand for oil, because of political and regulatory uncertainty.