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For the better part of a year, Prime Minister Mark Carney has argued that, in the United States Canada Mexico Agreement (USMCA), Canada has “the best deal of any major U.S. trading partner.”

In New York yesterday, speaking to “a crowd of New York industry titans,” the Prime Minister of Canada said the following: “Canada Strong will help make America great again.

The United States’ weekend invasion of Venezuela and kidnapping of its president, Nicolás Maduro, forces a harsh reckoning upon Canada and the world.

Below is a lightly edited presentation I gave last night for Brock University’s Centre for Canadian Studies, at the St.

Originally published in The Hill Times, under the title Why Canada can no longer trust U.S. regulatory agencies.

Since US voters re-elected Donald Trump in November, I’ve been arguing that the primary threat to Canada isn’t from his tariff policy, but from the fact that he’s dynamited the foundations of trust and certainty that have supported Canada-US cooperation f…

I had to laugh when I heard yesterday that the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and the Center for North American Prosperity and Security is pitching a “Grand Bargain” between Canada and the United States.

New piece from me in the Globe and Mail, in which I raise serious questions about Prime Minister Mark Carney’s overall strategy for dealing with the US.

The Liberal decision to axe the digital services tax (DST) on large tech companies, set to go into effect today (June 30), is important not so much on its own terms, but what its elimination tells us about Prime Minister Mark Carney’s US strategy.

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