From: Steve Ambler and Jerzy Konieczny To: Trump administration observersDate: September 23, 2025Re: Arithmetic upends the Trump mercantilist fallacy This summer, the Trump administration announced trade deals with Japan and the European Union. Each involved lower barriers to US exports, more foreign direct investment into the United States, and higher US tariffs on EU and […]
Published in Financial Post. This summer, the Trump administration announced trade deals with Japan and the European Union (EU). Each involved lower barriers to U.S. exports, more foreign direct investment (FDI) into the U.S., and higher U.S. tariffs on EU and Japanese goods. The U.S. looked like it was winning on all fronts. According to […]
Jeremy Kronick, vice-president and economic analysis and strategy at the C.D. Howe Institute, joins BNN Bloomberg to analyze the Bank of Canada and U.S. FED rate cuts. Â Â
Published in The Globe and Mail. On Wednesday, the Bank of Canada cut its policy rate by 25 basis points to 2.5 per cent. The cut was widely anticipated by financial markets. The cracks in the Canadian economy we mentioned in these pages after the bank’s last announcement in July have become far more visible. Gross domestic […]
The fall sitting of the House of Commons begins today, and it’s an uphill battle for Canada’s novice politician turned Prime Minister. Veteran political affairs reporter Paul Wells joins the C.D. Howe Institute’s Colin Busby to discuss what Parliament Hill’s policy priorities should be.
The fall sitting of the House of Commons begins today, and it’s an uphill battle for Canada’s novice politician turned Prime Minister. Veteran political affairs reporter Paul Wells joins the C.D. Howe Institute’s Colin Busby to discuss what Parliament Hill’s policy priorities should be. Â
From: Colin BusbyTo: Parliament watchersDate: September 12, 2025Re: The Three Big Challenges Facing Parliament Next Week Three big policy issues will be the focal point when Parliament resumes next week. The government faces a challenging balancing act as it works against the backdrop of a weakening economy – the unemployment rate is at 7.1 percent […]
Bill Robson, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, joins CBC News to share recommendations on how Ottawa can better support Canadians impacted by global tariffs amid a weakening economy and a growing federal deficit. Â Â Â
Published in The Globe and Mail. A trading nation, Canada lives next to what has long been a big welcoming market in a generally competitive free-trading world. That once free American market is fast being restricted by tariffs, for now made passably permeable by the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which is likely to be made more U.S.-protectionist […]
Edited remarks delivered to the School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University, on September 5, 2025.  Introduction: Canada Faces Layers of Economic and Fiscal Challenges There is keen awareness that Canada faces a serious economic challenge – if not a crisis – emanating from the US tariff threat. A desperate attempt is being made to […]
September 4, 2025 – The US tariff threat has exposed the fragility of Canada’s economic model, built on deep reliance on its southern neighbour. But tariffs are only the latest shock. Woeful productivity growth, high public debt, and a tax system that discourages growth have been weighing on the Canadian economy for years, according to […]
From: Brian LivingstonTo: Canadian Trade NegotiatorsDate: September 2, 2025Re: Aluminum Tariffs Canada supplies over half of the aluminum available in the United States (see chart).  These sales of 2.8 million tonnes/year of raw aluminum from Canada to the US take place under agreements made between many companies. However, disrupting those business plans, the United States […]
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From: Steve Ambler and Jerzy Konieczny To: Trump administration observersDate: September 23, 2025Re: Arithmetic upends the Trump mercantilist fallacy This summer, the Trump administration announced trade deals with Japan and the European Union. Each involved lower barriers to US exports, more foreign direct investment into the United States, and higher US tariffs on EU and […] 
Published in Financial Post. This summer, the Trump administration announced trade deals with Japan and the European Union (EU). Each involved lower barriers to U.S. exports, more foreign direct investment (FDI) into the U.S., and higher U.S. tariffs on EU and Japanese goods. The U.S. looked like it was winning on all fronts. According to […] 
Published in The Globe and Mail. On Wednesday, the Bank of Canada cut its policy rate by 25 basis points to 2.5 per cent. The cut was widely anticipated by financial markets. The cracks in the Canadian economy we mentioned in these pages after the bank’s last announcement in July have become far more visible. Gross domestic […] 
The fall sitting of the House of Commons begins today, and it’s an uphill battle for Canada’s novice politician turned Prime Minister. Veteran political affairs reporter Paul Wells joins the C.D. Howe Institute’s Colin Busby to discuss what Parliament Hill’s policy priorities should be. 
From: Colin BusbyTo: Parliament watchersDate: September 12, 2025Re: The Three Big Challenges Facing Parliament Next Week Three big policy issues will be the focal point when Parliament resumes next week. The government faces a challenging balancing act as it works against the backdrop of a weakening economy – the unemployment rate is at 7.1 percent […] 
Published in The Globe and Mail. A trading nation, Canada lives next to what has long been a big welcoming market in a generally competitive free-trading world. That once free American market is fast being restricted by tariffs, for now made passably permeable by the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which is likely to be made more U.S.-protectionist […] 
From: Brian LivingstonTo: Canadian Trade NegotiatorsDate: September 2, 2025Re: Aluminum Tariffs Canada supplies over half of the aluminum available in the United States (see chart).  These sales of 2.8 million tonnes/year of raw aluminum from Canada to the US take place under agreements made between many companies. However, disrupting those business plans, the United States […]