While National Newswatch does not keep an archive of external articles for longer than 6 months, we do keep all articles written by contributors who post directly to our site. Here you will find all of the contributed and linked external articles from David Crane.
For many decades, Canada attempted to escape restrictive American trade and other economic initiatives designed to advantage the United States by claiming a “special relationship” which, we argued, should mean an exemption for Canada. Reaction to the Donald Trump shock shows the idea isn’t dead. One can’t help feeling, after watching Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump...
Mark Carney will still face a domestic economy with weak growth prospects while having no choice but to act quickly to bring fiscal discipline to the federal government with deep spending cuts to programs prized by many Canadians, catalyze a huge and disruptive transition to a more competitive and productive economy less dependent on the U.S., and undertake a massive...
What basic message are we sending as we condemn the purchase of Chinese-made ferries while profiting from our sale of goods and services to China? Nothing brings out the worst in our politics and public discourse than a phony crisis. The commercial decision by BC Ferries to buy four ferries from China—and the decision by the Canada Infrastructure Bank to...