Tag: Trump
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Read more: Trump’s 2026 Trade Policy Agenda and Annual ReportSomeone has been hard at work trying to make a coherent policy out of the dumpster fire of U.S. trade policy. There are many things that stand out, but the one that always catches my eye is…
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Read more: A Valentine from your abuserMaybe it’s just me, but Rubio’s “we belong together”… and we sound so direct “because we care deeply” … to Europe at the Munich Security Conference sounds like a classic abuser gaslighting their victim. He is just…
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Read more: Carney speaks to Trump after president erupts over Gordie Howe BridgeThe amount of time and energy that must be spent correcting the late night rantings of the U.S. President. Incredible… Prime Minister Mark Carney said he spoke to his U.S. counterpart early Tuesday morning about the Gordie…
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Read more: Report on Canada’s 2025 CUSMA Consultations releasedI can’t find a date on this release…I just blundered into it on the Global Affairs website. I either missed it from earlier…or it is just out. Either way, this is so high level that it is…
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Read more: Foreign interference… “good for me…but not for you”It seems like only yesterday, that President Trump and his cabal of cabinet enablers, had a hissy fit and cancelled trade negotiations with Canada. This followed the release of a TV commercial that quoted Ronald Reagan’s thoughts…
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Read more: Greenland shows Trump for what he really isHot on the heels of the U.S. military intervention in Venezuela and the extraction of the Maduros to face a U.S. indictment, attention turned to what might be coming next in the role out of the Trump…
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Read more: Trump’s Critics Are Falling Into an Obvious TrapThis is a good read by David Frum in The Atlantic on the fallout from Trump’s Venezuela action today. Read it here Trump’s Critics Are Falling Into an Obvious Trap – The Atlantic I have to say…
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Read more: Denmark ‘deeply upset’ by Trump’s appointment of Greenland envoy who wants island to be part of USWTAF! My Danish mother, Danes and hopefully the rest of the free world, are appalled by this. The frightening audacity of an “ally” behaving like this should leave no doubt about the unhinged foreign policy Trump is…
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Read more: A Fertilizer Case StudyI don’t spend a lot of time thinking about fertilizer but this week fertilizer came into focus for me with three inter-related developments. Taken together they illustrate the many, and inconsistent, ways that President Trump’s “approach” to…
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Read more: CUSMA Review 2026…First Steps
The United States Trade Representative office is holding three days of hearings this week “regarding the operation of the Agreement between the United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Canada (USMCA) in preparation for the…