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Op-Ed
Keystone XL is dead. Everyone knows that. Nothing can force the Biden administration to reissue the construction permit. The fight is now over any compensation owed to owner TC Energy Corp. by the U.S. government.
Even though it was endorsed by the Canadian government and even though Alberta invested up to $1.5-billion in the venture, Keystone is a private-sector project. Claims for compensation…
Intelligence Memos
Intelligence Memo Flashback: US NAFTA negotiators have amended their position on content rules for the auto industry. This is a major breakthrough in the negotiations because the issue was one of the ‘poison pills’ that Canadian and Mexican officials identified as a serious obstacle in the talks. Last fall Christopher Sands cogently outlined the complexities of North America’s Autoplex in…
Op-Ed
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, completed and announced just two months ago, is broad-ranging, opaque for many, and complex like most international trade agreements.
For Canada, the deal involving 11 of our trading partners will be good on balance, albeit it will have negative—or potentially negative—impacts on several sectors or sub-sectors on the Canadian economy.
The…
Op-Ed
Published in the Montreal Gazette on June 4, 2014
By Claude Forget
Claude Forget is a former Quebec health minister. His C.D. Howe Institute study The Case of the Vanishing Physicians: How to Improve Access to Care, can be found at www.cdhowe.org.
For years, Quebecers and Quebec doctors have documented poor access to health-care services in the province. This situation ought…
Op-Ed
Published in the Financial Post on January 10, 2014
By Lawrence Herman
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (or TPP) trade negotiations, the biggest floating trade game on the planet, will be re-engaging in earnest this year, having missed their 2013 deadline, an impossible goal to begin with.
A lot is at stake. Should the talks succeed, Canada and all TPP participants will gain from the effects of…
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on November 23, 2013
By Finn Poschmann
The coming byelection in Toronto Centre, contested by two champions of greater equality, Chrystia Freeland and Linda McQuaig, has proven a jumping off point for a new round of handwringing over the rich and poor, and the distance between them.
Toronto Centre, you see, contains Rosedale and Regent Park, meaning the…
