A Farmer’s Lot
I’ll have something to say about the new trade agreement when more details are available. However, I understand that Canada’s farmers will make concessions under the deal. I’m a city…
I’ll have something to say about the new trade agreement when more details are available. However, I understand that Canada’s farmers will make concessions under the deal. I’m a city…
As Parliament re-opens today, the Conservatives have vowed to turn up the heat on reaching a NAFTA deal. Michael Harris writes that Justin Trudeau would do well not to be…
Yesterday, on his way to what comedian Bill Mahar calls one of his “Nuremberg Hillbillies Rallies,” Donald Trump threatened the “ruination” of Canada. Daniel Dale writes in The Toronto Star:…
Chrystia Freeland is back in Washington, trying to hammer out a trade deal. That’s no small task, given the fact that — as Bob Woodward’s new book and the recent…
The days of The Three Amigos Summits, Susan Delacourt writes, are gone: The last one was held in Canada in the summer of 2016. No “Three Amigos” summit has been…
Donald Trump has given Canada an ultimatum: Sign the new trade deal by Friday, or you’re out in the cold. Tom Walkom writes: Canada has been had. The Mexicans and…
Yesterday, Donald Trump announced that he had reached a trade deal with Mexico. Like so much that comes from Trump’s mouth these days, that simply wasn’t true. Lawrence Herman writes:…
Lawrence Martin writes that, if sanity prevails, Donald Trump will not impose tariffs on automobiles manufactured in Canada. Recently, there has been a strong chorus in favour of sanity and…
That’s the title of a best selling book about Donald Trump by David Corn and Michael Isikoff. Former American Ambassador Bruce Heyman writes that Trump is playing the same game…
During the past year, NAFTA has been encountering ill winds and rough seas. The ill winds come from the Blow Hard-in-Chief. Peter Clark writes: The Prime Minister has used his…
Before anyone starts to agree with former prime minister Stephen Harper’s conclusion that the Liberals have been “napping on NAFTA,” Tim Harper suggests that they take a look at Stephen…
Last week, Stephen Harper sent a memo to clients of his firm, Harper and Associates. The memo was titled “Napping on NAFTA.” The Toronto Sun reports that: The memo was…
Sometimes irony is entertaining. Sometimes it hurts. Tom Walkom points to the irony of Donald Trump’s insistence on American content rules as part of NAFTA: Under NAFTA, automobiles manufactured anywhere…
Peter Donolo has an interesting column in this morning’s Globe and Mail. Donolo believes that the NAFTA negotiations are not about trade. They’re about politics. The giveaway is that the…
Andrew Coyne’s conservative soul was perturbed by what Chrystia Freeland said yesterday: I said we should be prepared to walk away from the negotiations. I didn’t say we should deliberately…
NAFTA is going to be re-negotiated. That’s fine with Linda McQuaig, so long as workers get a piece of the action. She writes: In reality, NAFTA has been key to…
NAFTA will be renegotiated. But, Tim Harper writes, the negotiations will not be a disaster: Robert Lighthizer released his 18-page list of priorities for coming NAFTA negotiations, and there was…
In the coming NAFTA re-negotiations, Linda McQuaig argues that we should focus on Article 605 of the agreement: Article 605 limits the power of governments to cut back energy exports.…