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Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured Nov. 3, 2022, holding a press conference at the Sir John A. Macdonald Building in Ottawa.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

November 7, 2022

TORONTO—U.S. President Joe Biden likes to boast that since he assumed office in January 2021 the United States has created 700,000 new manufacturing jobs. By way of comparison, Canada has created just 39,000 new manufacturing jobs. Moreover, the Biden administration has succeeded in persuading Co...

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