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Prime Minister Mark Carney may not have emerged deal in hand from his latest White House bilateral with President Donald Trump, but he has clearly figured out how to get Trump’s attention and begin to break the tariff logjam. As a former Wall Street banker and former head of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, Mark...
Canada is at a pivotal moment in its energy transition, with hundreds of major projects — spanning LNG, hydrogen, wind, nuclear, hydro, pipelines, and Indigenous-led infrastructure — representing over $600 billion in actual and potential investment. According to the Government of Canada’s Canadian Centre for Energy Information, “In 2023, there were 223 planned (announced, under review, or approved) major energy...
For the most part since coming to office, Prime Minister Mark Carney has deftly used a mixture of discretion and flattery in managing Donald Trump. The process has been remarkably successful – it’s even been several days since Trump last talked about annexing Canada. Unfortunately, at a moment when Canada most needed to tread carefully, we’ve managed to score a...
Prime Minister Mark Carney is preparing for his first White House bilateral with Donald Trump; he should be sure to pack a thank-you gift for the mercurial president. As evidenced in the election results that have made Carney an elected prime minister largely based on his credentials as an economist and crisis manager, Trump has become perhaps the single greatest...
During Donald Trump’s first term, The New Yorker published an iconic cartoon that showed a flock of sheep grazing on a hill alongside a billboard of a wolf who is campaigning for office. The wolf’s election slogan is “I am going to eat you,” leading one sheep to comment, “He tells it like it is.” There’s a lesson for us...
While Donald Trump’s second presidency is generating anticipatory anxiety in capitals across the world, here in Canada, all eyes are on January 20 awaiting an answer to a very specific question: “Will he or won’t he?” Will he or won’t he levy an across-the-board 25 percent tariff on Canadian and Mexican goods?” Though, by now, it should be clear that...
When Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tables the 2024 federal budget, it will be the seventh anniversary of the Trudeau government’s escalator tax on beer, wine and spirits. Originally crafted in 2017, during what now looks like a Goldilocks period of low and predictable inflation at or below two per cent, the measure might have seemed rather benign. Since excise taxes...