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  1. The Biden administration—what’s it mean for Canada?

    Appeared in National Newswatch, January 22, 2021 As Canadians watched this week’s presidential inauguration and the immediate aftereffects (which include a scuttled Keystone XL pipeline), many wonder what a Biden administration will mean for Canada. And ...

  2. Trump’s TikTok move sends clear warning to Canadian companies

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun, August 12, 2020 Last week, President Trump signed an executive order banning U.S. transactions with ByteDance, the parent company of the popular online video-sharing service TikTok, ostensibly because TikTok’s U.S. operating ...

  3. Canada can’t escape Trump administration’s war on trade

    In the U.S. economic war with China, President Trump raised the stakes last week, with a 10 per cent tariff on an additional $300 billion of imported Chinese products. Tariffs on imports are only one weapon Trump has employed in his ...

  4. Shrinking U.S. trade deficit likely bad news for U.S. trading partners

    Ordinarily, official announcements of the monthly U.S. trade deficit get minimal attention from the media. Not so for the recent announcement by the U.S. Commerce Department of the March 2018 U.S. trade deficit. Numerous media reports ...

  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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. China displaces Canada as largest U.S. trade partner (though China’s bragging rights may be short-lived)

    Recently released data from the U.S. Department of Commerce show that through September 2015, China accounted for a larger share of total U.S. trade than Canada. Specifically, China accounted for 15.7 per cent of total U.S. trade, while ...