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1. Trudeau government must act now on trade, taxes as possible recession looms

   Appeared in the Moncton Times & Transcript, September 28, 2018 As Parliament resumes, Canada’s policymakers face a turbulent state of affairs as the United States and China wage an economic Cold War armed with tariffs and Ottawa continues negotiating ...

2. The Canadian economy at the precipice

   Appeared in Business in Vancouver, September 18, 2018 Any projection of the Canadian economy’s trajectory depends heavily upon one’s outlook for the ongoing NAFTA negotiations. If the United States and Canada renew NAFTA, the outlook for Canada’s economy ...

3. Supply management increases prices, reduces range of milk and other dairy products

   When the Australian market was deregulated in 2000, the average price farmers received for raw milk almost doubled. ...

4. Canada's trade hurdle—it's all about supply management

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province, September 4, 2018 Last week, the United States and Mexico reached an agreement in principle on a new free trade arrangement, and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland heads back to Washington this week in an effort ...

5. How to resolve Canada's trade quagmire in the age of Trump

   Appeared in the Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal, August 22, 2018 The NAFTA negotiations continue to roller-coaster. The Trump administration is now in senior level one-on-one NAFTA talks with Mexico, while President Trump threatens Canada with new auto ...

6. Foisting 19th century trade policy on our modern world is simply wrong

   Anyone trying to understand or explain the Trump administration’s international trade policy is often forced to conclude that his focus on trade deficits and domestic production is really an expression of mercantilism—a trade philosophy ...

7. Protectionism on the rise as NAFTA talks stall

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, July 25, 2018 The contentious (and sometimes very public) NAFTA negotiations between the Trump administration, the Trudeau government and Mexico likely got more complicated with the recent election of Andres Manuel Lopez ...

8. Canada can eliminate supply management by following Australia's lead

   Appeared in the Financial Post, July 17. 2018 As trade tensions between Canada and the United States over NAFTA renegotiations continue, and President Trump places Canada’s protection of various sectors of its agricultural industry front and centre, ...

9. Phasing Out Supply Management: Lessons from Australia's Dairy Industry

   Australia’s dairy industry has a long history of government support and control. From the 1920s to the end of the twentieth century, a succession of state and federal governments sought to stabilize the supply and price of milk, butter, and cheese and, as ...

10. In the evolving trade debacle with the U.S, Ottawa must act

    The outlook for ongoing NAFTA negotiations grows dimmer by the day, notwithstanding the conciliatory statement by Mexico’s new president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (known colloquially as AMLO). In a recent interview after exit polling ...