Facing tariffs, Canada has a clever, cleaner trade-compliant tool to support its steel and aluminum industries
The time is ripe for the import of good ideas. While Trump pulls back from policies that are already supporting clean, domestic industries in the U.S., let’s help our own steel and aluminum companies by buying clean right here at home.
U.S. has to ‘feel the pain’ from Canada’s counter-tariffs but it will take time, warns trade expert
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called Donald Trump’s tariffs ‘a very dumb thing to do,’ when announcing Canada’s response to the U.S. president’s ‘illegal’ March 4 move.
Trump does not rule the world
The Trump administration cannot be allowed to get away with this thuggish behaviour that risks global depression, global peace and security and sustainability. It can be stopped and we have to do everything, with allies, to ensure that.
U.S. ‘hacking away’ at world order means Canada must strengthen ties with allies, say foreign policy experts
World politics are undergoing a major power transition that only comes around once a century, says Aaron Ettinger. ‘We don’t know what a liberal world order looks like without the United States, and that is the great unknown in all of this.’
Ottawa can tap businesses to foster trade uptick with CETA and CPTPP partners, say observers
If exporters are given accessible information about the upsides of these deals with the European Union and Trans-Pacific partners, ‘they will take the opportunity if it is to their advantage,’ says former Harper trade adviser Andrea van Vugt.
Trump wants Canada economically weak and politically divided, says author of ‘The Adaptable Country’
Alasdair Roberts, author of The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century, offers advice on how Canada can get through the Trump years. But it’s going to be one, tough fight, and the country can’t be divided.
In the heart of Montreal, Liberals look to maintain dominance and avoid repeat of byelection shock
Liberal leadership candidates faced off in battleground Montreal near the epicentre of their September byelection loss.
Time for Canada to work with Europe
U.S. President Donald Trump has put both Canada and Europe at the children’s table in deciding on Ukraine’s fate and other global conflicts.
Canada’s efforts to diversify trade in Southeast Asia ‘positive,’ but experts fear Ottawa is late to the game
Doing business in Asia is complicated for a lot of firms, says former diplomat Stewart Beck. ‘It’s different cultures, different languages, different legal systems. And so when companies go there, it’s a timely and costly process to do it.’
Tariff dispute process would only offer symbolic win for Canada, but should still be used: trade observers
Canada has indicated that it would pursue immediate retaliatory tariffs in response to U.S. levies before a dispute body can adjudicate the case.
