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1. American firms smell blood in the trade waters

   The Trump administration’s war against international competition continues with the U.S. Commerce Department’s ruling this week that Bombardier, an aerospace and transportation company based in Montreal, sold planes to U.S.-based Delta ...

2. Boeing dispute shows the advantage of reviewable trade rules

   Aerospace has always been a little different as industrial politics go, but doesn’t the current Boeing-Bombardier dog fight seem more than usually strange, even for that industry? British Prime Minister Theresa May has now joined Prime ...

3. Ending supply management will greatly benefit Canadian consumers

   In renegotiating NAFTA, President Trump wants to end Canada’s supply management system. ...

4. Trade policy as social engineering—the downside of more NAFTA vetoes

   Trade policy always involves social engineering. If you change the rules under which goods and services can come into your country, that will change who does what for a living and for how much money. To a greater or lesser extent, ...

5. Canada’s competitiveness problem with the personal income tax

   In 1917, Canada’s political leaders were worried about what the introduction of a personal income tax would mean for the nation’s international competitiveness and its continued ability to attract investment and people. As Canada ...

6. Trump’s NAFTA demands, while politically challenging, may ultimately enhance trade environment

   In its recently released 16-page document, the Trump administration announced its specific negotiating objectives for the upcoming NAFTA renegotiation process. The document states at the outset its objective to reduce the U.S. trade ...

7. Softwood lumber dispute—dumping should not be a trade issue

   This week the Trump administration escalated the softwood lumber dispute with Canada when the U.S. Commerce Department imposed a preliminary anti-dumping duty of up to 7.72 per cent on Canadian softwood lumber exports. (In this context, ...

8. Political turmoil in U.S. turns spotlight on Canadian health care

   Canadians frequently, and with some justification, believe their American neighbours are ignorant, even indifferent, to political and social developments north of the border. A clichéd characterization is that the surest way to get a ...

9. It’s time for Canada to reassess its climate policy

   The federal government recently unveiled its new national carbon pricing scheme, calling it a “backstop.” Under the backstop plan, provinces are given until 2018 to create their own carbon pricing system or Ottawa will impose its own. ...

10. Canada and the U.S. now stand on opposite sides of climate policy

    As I predicted a few days ago, President Trump yesterday kept another campaign promise, and withdrew the United States from the Paris climate agreement. Details are pending, of course, and the president threw out a combination fig leaf ...