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In just over a month, North American governments are expected to decide the future of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). More likely, they will decide how to decide that future. It’s still not clear to anyone, probably U.S. trade negotiators included, how this first six-year review of CUSMA will play out.
Prime Minister Carney can be pleased with the results of his first official visit to China. Through a temporary trade truce, and a list of political, economic and cultural MOUs, the federal government has effectively reset relations with China to where they were in 2016, before the arrest of Meng Wanzhou at the request of the first Trump administration. The...
Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump has kicked over the sandcastle defending what is left of the rules-based international trading order. As critics of that order, we accept the opportunity and challenge it creates to rethink international relations and mutating neoliberal dogmas. However, we are greatly concerned by the chaos and misfortune that Trump’s actions have caused for workers and...
Canada is on tenterhooks as Donald Trump prepares to be sworn in as 47th President of the United States of America. The main source of anxiety is the near certainty that Trump will impose tariffs on all or some Canadian exports, as soon as inauguration day. It’s possible he will make good on his wild threat, first uttered in late...
Late Monday night, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump used his Truth Social platform to announce he would impose across-the-board 25 per cent tariffs on Canada and Mexico on day one of his new administration. Trump said he would leave the tariffs in place “until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country...
It’s almost certain the federal government will soon announce supplementary tariffs on imports of China-made electric vehicles (EVs). There is remarkable agreement among former conservative trade advisors, libertarian think-tanks, environmental groups and labour unions that this is a good idea. The major questions seem to be how high the tariffs will be, what other restrictions Canada might impose on Chinese...
Donald Trump’s unsurprising win in the New Hampshire primary all but assures a reprise presidential election battle with Joe Biden this November. Can Trump win? I wouldn’t bet against it. Biden’s approval rating at this point in his presidency is lower than any other president in living memory, though with $120 million to spend on the campaign, that might not...