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Canada should learn from Plan Mexico to respond to Trump
With U.S. President Donald Trump having implemented near-universal 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian imports, politicians and pundits have focused on ensuring Canada remains “competitive”…
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The new Canada-Ecuador trade deal pushes anti-democratic trade policy
Amidst all the chaos brought on by Trump’s tariff threats, Canada’s federal trade minister celebrated a minor win this month: the finalization of a trade…
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Those big GDP numbers about interprovincial trade barriers are wrong
A lot of public discourse in Canada right now is about how we need to urgently remove interprovincial trade barriers in the face of the…
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Mexico’s CUSMA loss is a warning to New Zealand
The Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), which succeeded the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in July 2020, contains a number of changes that address some common…
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Which Canadian workers will be hit hardest by a trade war with the United States?
On February 10, U.S. President Donald Trump announced 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, including from Canada. This comes despite the 30…
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What if Canada stopped upholding U.S. tech companies’ intellectual property?
The following article was originally published by Cory Doctorow on his blog. It is reprinted here with his permission and under the terms of its…
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Interprovincial trade won’t save Canada from Trump
Since January 20, Canada has been at economic war with its largest trading partner and closest international ally. Though U.S. President Donald Trump has paused his promised …
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Trump’s tariff threats are here to stay—Scott Moe and Danielle Smith can’t change that
As Premier Scott Moe makes the rounds in Washington attempting to negotiate an end to the Trump tariff threat, the U.S. administration announced 25 per…
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An east-west oil pipeline is a trap—Canada needs an east-west electricity grid
Trump’s economic warfare and threats of annexation have triggered a rare moment of political agreement in Canada. We desperately need to reduce our economic dependence…
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A dozen radical responses to Trump’s economic warfare that go beyond Canadian counter-tariffs
The belief that economic integration with the United States—epitomized by the 1989 Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement and finally…
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Canada and Mexico should coordinate responses to Trump’s tariffs
Canadians may be forgiven for focusing on their own problems as Donald Trump’s February 1 tariff deadline approaches. The U.S. president says he will impose…
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What Trump’s Executive Orders mean for Canada
Donald Trump stood in front of a crowd of fans inside the Capital One arena in Washington D.C. on inauguration day. Having just taken the…
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