Keeping Canada-U.K. trade issues in perspective

Two-way trade in goods and services between our two nations totals nearly $45-billion per year. It’s growing, and it’s 99 per cent tariff free. The current kerfuffle is about that remaining one per cent. Let’s keep those orders of magnitude in perspective.

Canada's Trade Minister Mary Ng, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY RALPH GOODALE

February 5, 2024

LONDON, U.K.—There was a bit of hyperventilating recently when the United Kingdom unilaterally announced a “pause” in free trade talks with Canada because they didn’t think they were getting a deal that “delivered” for them. They specifically mentioned their chee...

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