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Increasingly isolated, angry and volatile due to ongoing investigations and key staff departures, President Donald Trump last week zig-zagged on gun control, publicly attacked his Attorney General and appeared ready…

Written by Sarah Goldfeder for the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. Click here to read the original. Introduction The United States and Canada are operating from diametrically opposed playbooks on global…

Written by Geoff Norquay for iPolitics Magazine. Click here to read the original.  Back in the days when Derek Burney was Canada’s Ambassador to Washington, he used to tell a…

After a week of focused trade activity, Round 6 of the NAFTA renegotiation wound up this past Monday in Montréal. Last week, the political leads met for bilateral discussions in…

Written by Paul Moen for The Hill Times. Click here to read the original. Canada’s new case against the United States at the World Trade Organization (WTO) is a bold…

Since his election in late 2016, President Trump has made no secret of his willingness to withdraw the United States from NAFTA if his administration cannot obtain the changes to…

Written by Robin V. Sears for Policy Magazine. Click here to read the original. During the latter part of the 20th century, diplomacy with China was new, tentative and coloured…

Written by Geoff Norquay for Policy Magazine. Click here to read the original. Tax reform in any democracy cannot be separated from politics any more than the broader budget process…

Written by Yaroslav Baran for Policy Magazine. Click here to read the original. Because Parliament’s function in a democracy is not only to pass legislation but to debate it, the…

By our Sarah Goldfeder for Policy Magazine. Click here to read the original. Since 1947, when the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade was struck in the spirit of post-war…