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1. 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, ...

2. 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& ...

3. History is clear—high tariffs and trade wars devastate countries

   Canada raised tariffs in the 1930s and sunk into the Great Depression. ...

4. Trump and Clinton ignore economic freedom during first presidential debate

   On Monday, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton squared off in perhaps the most highly anticipated presidential debate in history. As the candidates went back and forth for 90 minutes, a major theme of past presidential debates and indeed of ...

5. 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 ...

6. Trump continues to hammer NAFTA, and if elected, could likely terminate the agreement

   Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been a relentless critic of NAFTA since the beginning of his presidential campaign. His official position is that he will demand a renegotiation of the terms of NAFTA to get “a lot better ...

7. Free trade under attack in U.S. primaries

   One of the lessons coming out of the U.S. presidential primaries is the electorate's broad rejection of free trade. On the Democratic side, Senator Bernie Sanders' popularity has in part been driven by his anti-free trade ...

8. William Watson: The Trump-Sanders anti-trade, anti-progress alliance

   It’s been a tough call this U.S. primary season, choosing between the Republican and Democratic debates. The Republicans are livelier, in a UFC-style sense, at least, and on average the policy positions they propose seem slightly more ...

9. U.S. suspicion of Chinese investment an opportunity for Canada

   Chinese companies are on a foreign buying spree. For example, Chinese companies have recently made takeover offers for Ingram Micro Inc., a U.S.-based technology products distributor, Syngenta, an agricultural seeds manufacturer based in ...

10. How would a Bernie Sanders presidency affect Canada?

    Senator Sanders is an avowed protectionist, opposed to all future international trade deals and would renegotiate or scrap NAFTA and the Canada-U.S. FTA. ...