It is vital that Canada and Mexico work together in the face of military aggression and egregious violations of international law by our mutual neighbour, the U.S.
Canada could publicly reject the unilateral and illegal nature of the sanctions, and pressure banks and financial institutions to resist U.S. demands.
CUSMA negotiations may spell further trouble as the carceral agribusiness competes in Canada’s supply-managed dairy sector, and implicates prison labour in a supply chain of powdered milk exports.
The prime minister’s New York visit signals a push for industrial acceleration. But too often, social policy debates collapse into a single question: how does this improve our competitiveness?
Alliances will shift, trade talks will stall, and military procurement decisions will be reconsidered all because one party is no longer interested in hearing the other’s views.
Both countries possess the capacity to work in concert to protect ethical trade practices and fair competition across the continent. If this dispute is genuinely about forced labour, then there is much constructive work to be done together. But is it?
‘It’s a shot across the bow. The U.S. administration has clearly been watching the PM’s moves on defence and has concludes that there’s too much talk and too little action,’ says defence expert Christian Leuprecht.
Conservative Whip Chris Warkentin says it ‘seems’ that the budget of the Canada-U.S. Inter-Parliamentary Group will be slashed by 40 per cent.
The U.S. announced on May 18 that it is pausing participation in the Permanent Joint Board on Defence, alleging Canada hasn’t made ‘credible’ progress on defence investments.
The greatest threat to auto workers is the active U.S. trade war shuttering plants, not hypothetical Chinese competition.
For Donald Trump, burdened with a sluggish economy, an unpopular war, and polling numbers lower than the morale at the Pentagon, the goal is trade deals that will ease his problems back home. That’s why he took every billionaire business dude he could find along on the trip. For Xi Jinping, the calculus is different.
Mark Carney is currently in a ‘sweet spot’ because it’s still relatively early in his government. The time when Canadians could start getting hungry to see results from the prime minister on major projects, such as oil pipelines, might not be until next year, says Nik Nanos.
Every Canadian knows that the country needs a deal with our most important trading partner. But when does negotiating with Donald Trump equal surrendering to him?
Prime Minister Mark Carney in Davos argued that middle powers must help sustain a rules-based, principles-driven international order. This suggests a practical role for Canada in convening other middle powers to advance work on the drivers of the Middle East conflict that could help resolve the most dangerous crisis of our times.
In a wide-ranging interview, Lithuanian Economy and Innovation Minister Edvinas Grikšas talks growing trade, work with the EU, the push for diversification, and boosting domestic defence industries.
The increase in Canada’s exports to the United Kingdom has amounted to 67 per cent of all non-U.S. export gains since 2024.
Most caucus members are not pressing the issue, recognizing that Canada has limited leverage and little ability to meaningfully influence the U.S. position, say some Liberal MPs.
The federal government is becoming a shareholder in many Canadian firms as it seeks the capital it needs to build planned projects or launch new technologies.
Canada was one of the few U.S. allies not to strike a deal after the Trump administration enacted emergency tariffs that were later struck down by the top American court.
The committee includes ‘leaders from major sectors of the Canadian economy, representing extensive experience in business, investment, trade, and labour,’ and is chaired by Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc.
Although provincial and federal political actors broadly agree on the value of a more integrated Canadian market, the biggest obstacle standing between political will and a fully optimized market is our federal system itself.
Mark Carney plans to invite the world’s largest investors to a summit in Toronto in September to ‘advance Canada’s nation-building projects.’ But we need to be more than a branch-plant economy.
No Canadian prime minister has ever faced a more difficult relationship with an American president than Prime Minister Mark Carney does with Donald Trump.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is a ‘better political practitioner’ than he’s given credit for, and the committee’s makeup could be another ‘proof point’ of that, says Conservative strategist Cole Hogan.
What we are witnessing is not the triumph of religion or secularism, but the cynicism of power using both.
