Lawrence Herman – Ministerial Mandate Letter: Minister of Foreign Affairs
As Canada forms its next government, the Prime Minister’s Office will be preparing ministerial mandate letters. In this special Intelligence Memo series, policy experts highlight key challenges and priorities in each minister’s portfolio. From: Lawrence Herman To: The incoming Minister of Foreign Affairs Date: November 5, 2019 Internationally, Canada finds itself in a volatile and hostile world, where […]Christian Leuprecht – Ministerial Mandate Letter: Minister of National Defence
As Canada forms its next government, the Prime Minister’s Office will be preparing ministerial mandate letters. In this special Intelligence Memo series, policy experts highlight key challenges and priorities in each minister’s portfolio. From: Christian Leuprecht To: The incoming Minister of National Defence Date: October 31, 2019 World order and the global security environment are […]Keeping Score: Investor-State Dispute Awards between the US and Canada
October 31, 2019 – US investor-state disputes against Canada still loom under NAFTA, with five unresolved claims outstanding and the possibility that more could emerge, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Keeping Score: Investor-State Dispute Awards between the US and Canada,” respected trade lawyer Lawrence Herman notes the ratification of […] Jon Johnson – Us-japan Agreement Bypasses Congress, Challenging Wto
From: Jon Johnson To: Canadians Concerned about US Trade Policy and the WTO Date: October 25, 2019 Re: US-Japan Agreement Bypasses Congress, Challenging WTO The US Congressional Research Service reported on October 3 that the tariff changes in the US-Japan Agreement will be brought into effect through delegated tariff proclamation authorities in US Trade Promotion […] Jon Johnson – The Warren Manifesto
From: Jon Johnson To: Canadians Following Trade Policies of US Democratic Contenders Date: October 8, 2019 Re: The Warren Manifesto On July 29, Senator Elizabeth Warren set out her trade agenda as president. Warren is one of Donald Trump’s most vocal critics. However, her approach to trade, outlined in Trade – On Our Terms, is […] Jon Johnson – The Latest Moves on Softwood Lumber
From: Jon Johnson To: Canadians Following the Softwood Lumber Dispute Date: September 18, 2019 Re: The Latest Moves on Softwood Lumber The current softwood dispute between Canada and the US is moving forward on two fronts. On the binational panel front, a NAFTA Chapter 19 panel considering the final injury determination by the US International […]S1 E11 – Brexit and Canada
As the political situation in the United Kingdom grows ever more precarious, Michael Hainsworth sits down with David Blanchflower, professor of economics at Dartmouth College and former member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, to ask what Brexit means for Canada, broader relations with the EU, and offer some clues as to what […] Jon Johnson – Constitutional Challenge to Section 232: On to Appeal
From: Jon Johnson To: Canadians Concerned About Section 232 Tariffs Date: September 9, 2019 Re: Constitutional Challenge to Section 232 – On to Appeal On March 25, the US Court of International Trade (CIT) denied the American Institute for International Steel, Inc. (AIIS) motion challenging the constitutionality of Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of […]Ciuriak, Dadkhah, and Xiao – Quantifying CUSMA: The Economic Consequences of the New NAFTA
Whether or not the new NAFTA is a ‘good’ deal has entered the federal election conversation, with some commentators citing our working paper from last month. Here’s what we wrote then. From: Dan Ciuriak, Ali Dadkhah, and Jingliang Xiao To: Canadians Concerned about Trade Policy Date: August 29, 2019 Re: Quantifying CUSMA: The Economic Consequences of the New NAFTA […]Daniel Schwanen – The Brexit Endgame is in Sight: How Should Canada Play It?
From: Daniel Schwanen To: The Honourable Chrystia Freeland Date: August 15, 2019 Re: The Brexit Endgame is in Sight: How Should Canada Play It? Canada’s trade and investment relationship with the United Kingdom and with the rest of the European Union has evolved under a major cloud of uncertainty in the three years since UK voters decided to leave […]Ciuriak, Dadkhah, Xiao – Quantifying CUSMA: The Economic Consequences of the New NAFTA
From: Dan Ciuriak, Ali Dadkhah, and Jingliang Xiao To: Canadians Concerned about trade policy Date: July 29, 2019 Re: Quantifying CUSMA: The Economic Consequences of the New NAFTA The Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) has a number of liberalizing elements, including expanding US access to Canada’s dairy and poultry markets; raising the threshold for tax and duty-free entry into […]Hugh O’Reilly on BNN – Managing global risk with your portfolio
Hugh O’Reilly, senior fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the outlook for markets amid current trade tensions.