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Canadian policymakers should increase free trade at home as protectionism clouds gather

Provinces could eliminate provincial marketing boards, which prevent free trade in specific food items including poultry products.


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Ottawa should end obsession with trade diversification

The United States has consistently accounted for approximately 75 per cent of Canada’s merchandise exports over the past three decades.


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The new deal reportedly jettisons environmental obligations that were part of the last four U.S. trade deals.


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Canada's trade hurdle—it’s all about supply management

Canada has less leverage with U.S. negotiators now than before the U.S.-Mexico deal.


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A mercantilist policy that simple-mindedly favours exports and discourages imports inevitably ends up suppressing real wages.

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Donald Trump doesn’t understand the benefits of trade, and Hillary Clinton has criticized trade on the campaign trail.


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Those behind the plan are central planners at heart, mistakenly seeing themselves as the initiators of trade.