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Amid all the attention paid to her mildly salacious revelations about Justin Trudeau, Chrystia Freeland has been saying stuff that’s much more relevant to our current moment. At every tour stop to promote her new book “Unreliable Boyfriend: An Insider’s View of Dealing with a Chaotic Superpower, Plutocrats, and Other Complicated People,” the former federal cabinet titan has been going...
The federal budget expected next month would be a good time for Mark Carney to start thinking small. Not in terms of economic ambition. This is not a case to pivot hard into fiscal-restraint mode, when there’s still tons to be done to get this country to compete more aggressively for investment and growth and a reduced reliance on the...
It’s unlikely Mark Carney was aiming to relaunch a national immigration debate when he popped into the New York Times last month and mentioned in passing that Canada will “resume some controlled increase in the population” once the system is under control. But that, unsurprisingly, has been the result — with opposition MPs warning about Ottawa again letting in “too...
Think of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s foreign investment summit, this coming Monday and Tuesday, as a speed-dating session. Sure, there will be speeches — most notably by Carney himself, as well as by Stephen Harper — at the gathering of global CEOs at Toronto’s Four Seasons Hotel. Plus panels, breakout sessions, and other stuff you’d typically associate with a conference...
Oil pipelines, nuclear build-outs, mines and data centres will highlight Mark Carney’s pitch at next week’s elite gathering of foreign investors in Toronto. But he will not be offering up Canada’s airports, at least according to a list of potential investments that the government began distributing to selected Investment Summit attendees on Wednesday.
Canada’s economy is strong enough to stand up to Donald Trump. Given the years of self-flagellation that preceded this trade war, you might not have known that. All the talk of lacklustre productivity, of regulatory roadblocks and uncompetitive tax policies, could easily have given you the impression that we’re here for Trump’s taking.
Canadians may owe Howard Lutnick a debt of gratitude. It was a final-hours intervention by the U.S. Commerce Secretary, who’s peculiarly belligerent toward Canada even by the standards of Donald Trump’s White House, which seemed to coincide with new American demands that scuppered the tentative trade agreement between the two countries.
This is not, by early appearances, the deal that Canada’s automotive sector wants or needs. As trade negotiations entered crunch time this week, industry leaders warned with increasing urgency that Mark Carney could not afford to settle for a rumoured cut to U.S President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian-assembled vehicles that would still leave the tariffs too high for those...
An improbable show of support for Canada came recently, from amid the hollowed-out streets and rusting mills of Pennsylvania’s steel country. The people who work at the few remaining steelmaking facilities in the Pittsburgh region’s Mon Valley have plenty to worry about closer to home. The decades-long contraction of their industry has left high unemployment and rampant poverty, and the...
First do no harm. That’s not an easy ask of anyone trying to defend their country’s interests in a negotiation with U.S. President Donald Trump. Not when he’s wielding the world’s biggest economy as a weapon, and seems less interested in strengthening it than in harming others.
In a matter of weeks, we might find out just how eager Mark Carney really is to sell off our airports. We should also get a better sense of which other Canadian assets foreign investors want.
Donald Trump is counting on Canada having weak resolve — freaking out and turning on each other and crawling to him with fresh concessions, in the face of his latest menacing of our economy. The next month will be about proving him wrong. And so far, we’re not off to a half-bad start.
Raise a glass to Doug Ford, and most of his fellow premiers, for continuing to keep American liquor off our shelves. Because if there was somehow any doubt that we need to hold on to any sliver of leverage against Donald Trump, as trade negotiations heat up, it was erased by the way his hostage-taking of the Gordie Howe bridge...
Mark Carney is committing enormous sums of public money with little explanation, in ways that neither Justin Trudeau nor most other prime ministers before him could have gotten away with. It can be easy to look past, because of the financial gravitas that Carney carries.
Just how nonsensical does a pitch for a new oil pipeline have to be, in the current political climate, to be rejected out of hand? Courtesy of Doug Ford and Danielle Smith, we’re about to find out.
Mark Carney has only himself to blame, for the controversy that erupted last week when he announced a half-baked plan to buy up vacant condominiums. But the blowback, as strong as any he’s faced since becoming prime minister, may ultimately prove a blessing in disguise both for him and for the country
Donald Trump has made the Gordie Howe International Bridge into a big, beautiful monument to the futility of trying to jointly advance the economic interests of his country and ours. There are so many reasons for Canadians to be furious about Trump blocking the bridge’s opening: the pain to industries that need a faster crossing at the Windsor-Detroit border, the...
Inflation has surged to its highest level in years, Statistics Canada announced Monday, and we can rightly blame U.S. President Donald Trump and his war in Iran for the oil-fueled increase.
Mark Carney made the mistake of hiding behind Doug Ford, during the push for an expansion to Billy Bishop airport. And as a result, the prospect of jets and millions more passengers flying onto and off the Toronto Islands every year — which the prime minister seemed initially to want — is looking more unlikely by the day.
The people leading Canada’s trade talks are not as worried as you might think about Donald Trump’s latest threats to end North American free trade. It was somewhat jarring, this week, to take in the calm demeanour projected by chief trade negotiator Janice Charette, at an automotive conference, and lead cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc, and ambassador Mark Wiseman at a...
One of Ontario’s biggest and most reliable automakers is warning Canadians not to take its presence here for granted. “Companies don’t automatically keep building vehicles in the same country just because it’s always been that way,” Honda Canada president Dave Jamieson told an industry summit convened by the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association in Vaughan this week.
Ontarians could soon be facing a massive energy bill. Electricity demand between now and 2050 will likely double, according to projections, and to meet it Doug Ford’s government intends to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on new nuclear reactors alone. Throw in anticipated refurbishments of existing reactors, plus new transmission lines and other power generation projects, and the costs...
If you’re a patriotic Canadian who believes we need to build up this country as rarely before, Mark Carney wants you to put your own dollars into it. And despite a high degree of skepticism among his friends in the financial world, he’s serious about offering a government-backed guarantee that you’ll get your money back.
Lost in the controversy around the substance of the referendum questions that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith will put to voters next fall has been that the timing is nearly as striking. Less than three months ago, via a memorandum of understanding, Prime Minister Mark Carney gave Ms. Smith many of the concessions on energy and environmental policy – among them...
For companies that arrive cap-in-hand to pitch energy or mining projects that might meet Canada’s moment of economic reckoning, a sit-down with the most influential member of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet can be a novel and jarring experience. Tim Hodgson isn’t much for the pleasantries that usually kick off such meetings, sometimes at length, with other ministers. Nor does...
The association representing Canada’s power utilities is stepping up its criticism of the federal government’s proposed Clean Electricity Regulations, as Ottawa prepares to release a final version of the new rules by the end of the year.
Canada’s carbon pricing system for heavy industrial emitters is by far the country’s most impactful policy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and roughly three times more effective than the more controversial carbon price paid by most consumers, according to new research being released on Thursday.