Tag: Trump
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Read more: Canadian envoy to Washington Kirsten Hillman has term extended during tense trade talksJune 22, 2025 Robert Fife Ottawa Bureau Chief, Globe and Mail Prime Minister Mark Carney has asked Kirsten Hillman to stay on as Canada’s ambassador to Washington and take on the role of chief negotiator in tense trade and…
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Read more: Trump knows exactly what he just triggered in Canada
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Read more: Trump Tariff negotiation plans…
This story from the Wall Street Journal provides a bit of light on the approach that the U.S. Administration plans to use with those countries “seeking to rebalance trade” to use the euphemism that seems to be…
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Read more: Canadians rate U.S. relations as poor as ties with Russia, worse than links to China
If you are not from Canada, it may be difficult to understand the rapid, negative reaction to the Trump Administration. However, this report surprised me…and I live here. Dylan Robertson, Canadian Press April 25, 2025 OTTAWA –…
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Read more: Canada needs to prepare for the effects of the ‘Mar-a-Lago Accord’
This piece in the Globe and Mail starts to get at some of the issues and linkages that may well come up in the negotiation of a new relationship with the U.S. Contributed to The Globe and…
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Read more: Ottawa says automakers that keep building in Canada will get a tariff exemption
Kelly Geraldine Malone The Canadian Press Apr 15, 2025WASHINGTON – Automobile companies that continue to manufacture vehicles in Canada will get an exemption from Ottawa’s retaliatory tariffs as U.S. President Donald Trump attempts to upend the North…
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Read more: Honda to make 90% of US sales locally by relocating Mexico, Canada production, Nikkei reports
I am not expert in the details of auto manufacturing in Canada. But the story (see below) that Honda is planning to move production from Canada to the United States to avoid Trump tariffs is a concern.…
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Read more: Perspectives: Brussels needs to convene a Conversation of the Willing
David Henig writes a great piece in Borderlex today, This is one of the things that has to happen. We will all have our particular battles with the Trump trade approach, but only by coming together and…
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Read more: Open letter to the next prime minister: We need a royal commission on Canada’s future
The following has been reprinted from Policy Options.
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Read more: The “Th…ugly American” approach to international relationsSuch arrogance. “We don’t like the status quo. We are going to set a new status quo, and then we can negotiate something, if they (other nations) want to,” he said. “What we have now cannot continue.”…