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1. TPP redux—The Art of the Bad Deal

   You encourage 11 of your allies to get together with you in a trade and investment deal. You impose structure and content on it. Then at the last minute you decide you yourself aren’t going to join. After they go ahead and finalize the ...

2. Canada can’t dodge two ‘trade’ bullets shot from the U.S.

   At this writing, the odds that Hillary Clinton will defeat Donald Trump for the U.S. presidency are very high. If your concern is trade between Canada and the United States, Canada dodged a bullet. Donald Trump is hostile to trade, ...

3. Clinton and Trump—similar policy prescriptions that may not bode well for the U.S. or Canada

   The highly contentious presidential campaign between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump often seems less about policy and more about trading insults, personal attacks and generally being unpleasant. This was particularly true in Sunday& ...

4. Trump and Clinton ignore economic freedom during first presidential debate

   On Monday, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton squared off in perhaps the most highly anticipated presidential debate in history. As the candidates went back and forth for 90 minutes, a major theme of past presidential debates and indeed of ...

5. Canada’s closer ties to China may strain ties with U.S.

   Prime Minister Trudeau’s recent visit to China promises to strengthen the economic and political relations between Canada and China. Among other things stemming from the visit, the Canadian government announced the signing of 56 business ...