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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Keystone pipeline veto: What’s it mean for North American economic integration?
Earlier this year, President Obama vetoed the bill passed by Congress authorizing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. The veto was not a surprise, as the President had signaled his intentions well before the bill was passed. ...