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1. 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, ...

2. Renewed softwood lumber dispute may fan U.S. protectionist flames in other industries

   While Canadian and U.S. trade officials negotiate a new softwood lumber agreement (a one-year “standstill” period expired last week), Canadian officials have privately indicated that the price of an agreement demanded by the Americans is ...

3. Growing U.S. protectionism threatens Canada’s forestry industry

   A tentative deal between Canada and the United States on softwood lumber expired at midnight on Oct. 12. The ongoing softwood lumber war between Canada and the U.S. is largely due to American economic protectionism, or more precisely, ...

4. 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& ...

5. Facts should defuse 'fair share’ rhetoric on taxes

   There’s a lot of talk right now in the U.S. presidential race about the wealthy not paying their “fair share” of taxes. There are similar concerns in Canada. Although the term “fair share” is rarely defined, clearly some Canadians ...

6. Softwood lumber trade dispute beginning to boil again

   When Prime Minister Trudeau and President Obama met in Ottawa at the end of June, they apparently reached no agreement about how to handle a file that has been an ongoing source of conflict between Canada and the United States since 1982 ...

7. 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 ...

8. Waning U.S. productivity growth threatens Canada’s economic health

   The U.S. Labor Department recently reported that U.S. nonfarm business productivity—the goods and services produced for each hour worked by American workers—decreased at a 0.5 per cent seasonally adjusted annual rate over the period ...

9. Hillary’s plans won’t help Canada’s trade performance

   Canada’s trade performance has deteriorated markedly over the past 18 months. Last week, Statistics Canada reported that for the April-June 2016 quarter, Canada’s trade deficit with the world widened from C$6.4 billion in the first ...

10. William Watson: The case against compulsory voting—why conscript the uninformed?

    I’ve been a fan of U.S. politics since 1965 or 1966 when, shortly after it came out in paperback, my father gave me Ted Sorensen’s JFK biography, Kennedy, for Christmas or my birthday. (That was the complete title: Books didn’t have ...