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Brent Patterson
| The Trudeau government's tacking "progressive" onto the name of the TPP is both absurd and wrong. |
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Brent Patterson
| There is no common cause with anti-immigration parties in the U.S., France, Italy, Germany and elsewhere when seeking trade justice. |
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Mel Watkins
| With one trade agreement having failed us, some are arguing that we should diversify our trade beyond the U.S. market by signing on to more trade deals. But is that the wrong lesson? |
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Brent Patterson
| The biotechnology industry is celebrating NAFTA 2.0 as a win for genetically engineered foods. |
Columnists
Duncan Cameron
| In ongoing talks with Japan and the EU, the U.S. plans to use the precedent created by a concession granted in the USMCA to advance the American goal of punishing China for its trade practices. |
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Sujata Dey
| At midnight on Sunday, Canada and the U.S. agreed on a new NAFTA deal, now called the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. Here is the good, the bad and the ugly within the agreement. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| As Britain's looming Brexit catastrophe shows, so-called trade agreements are easier to get into than out of. So there was not much to be done but negotiate the least awful deal possible. |
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Brent Patterson
| Although the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal phases out NAFTA's Chapter 11, analysis suggests transnational capital has other tricks up its sleeve to challenge the public interest. |
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Brent Patterson
| Trudeau says it's "a good day for Canada," but is that really the case? While the full text of the USMCA needs to be thoroughly analyzed, a preliminary review raises numerous concerns. |
Columnists
Duncan Cameron
| Pierre Trudeau called the original trade deal with the U.S. "a monstrous swindle." The new deal is that, plus a set of unnecessary capitulations to shut up Donald Trump on trade. It won't. |
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Brent Patterson
| The renegotiation of NAFTA is approaching a significant deadline on September 30. That's the date set out by Washington to deliver the text of a deal with or without Canada. |
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Brent Patterson
| Trudeau spins a "red line" pushed by corporations as the will of Canadians. |