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The Next-Level Border: Advancing Technology & Expanding Trade
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This report summarizes what was heard at two roundtables on how to enhance the Canada-U.S. border with tech to facilitate trade.
Date: Monday July 30, 2018
Canada-China Session 1: Setting the stage, public opinion trends, approaches to trade
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Recap of the first meeting of PPF's Canada-China Forum includes presentations on public opinion by Bruce Anderson of Abacus Data and sectoral trade by Wendy Dobson of University of Toronto
Date: Tuesday July 25, 2017
CBC Analysis: NAFTA talks forced Canada to pick a side in U.S.-China trade war
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"In signing on for NAFTA 2.0, Canada also joined the Trump administration's China agenda," writes CBC's Janyce McGregor in a CBC Analysis article. "When the Trudeau government agreed to a revised North American free trade deal, the Americans said Canada also agreed to something else: joining Donald Trump's trade war on China."
Date: Saturday October 13, 2018
Maclean’s Op-ed: How Canada can work on trade with China—without angering America
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PPF's Edward Greenspon and the Vice-Chair of the BMO Financial Group Kevin Lynch share their opinion on Canada-China trade in this Maclean's op-ed. They discuss how the Canadian government must diversify its economy, and China is the obvious target. But that there are risks with such a partnership.
Date: Thursday October 11, 2018
Open Atlantic
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...and Tombe, T. (July 22, 2019). Internal Trade in Canada: Case for Liberalization. https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2019/07/22/Internal-Trade-in-Canada-Case-for-Liberalization-47100. IMF. ↑ Deloitte. (November 2021). The case for liberalizing interprovincial trade in Canada. https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/ca/Documents/finance/ca-en-the-case-for-liberalizing-interprovincial-trade-in-canada-aoda.pdf. ↑ Sharpe,...
Date: Wednesday January 10, 2024
Canada’s Complicated Tango with the U.S.
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As a presidential election looms in the United States, Canada is facing three possible scenarios for its outcome. Trade with the U.S. remains largely as healthy as it was 30 years ago, but that could change as the country’s neighbour to the south looks inward. To combat this, Canada must continue to diversify while also trading south.
Date: Thursday October 1, 2020
Governance in the Agreement on Internal Trade
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This discussion paper examines the Agreement on Internal Trade from a governance perspective, and explores some new directions for enhancing the effectiveness of the Agreement at its 10th anniversary, especially...
Date: Tuesday July 13, 2004
CBC: Canada can avoid offending U.S. by pursuing sectoral trade with China: report
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Andy Blatchford writes that the authors of the PPF report "Diversification Not Dependence: A Made-in-Canada Strategy" argue that Canada can do more business with China 'in such a way that should not offend' the U.S. through a a surgical, sector-by-sector approach.
Date: Wednesday October 10, 2018
Davos 2019: Looking for order in a disorderly world
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Slowing global growth, the possibility of a U.S.-China trade war, the chaos of Brexit, the urgency and inaction toward tackling climate change, and the perceptions of shortcomings in political and corporate leadership shaped the gloomier mood at Davos this year. Kevin Lynch, Vice Chairman of the BMO Financial Group, explains that the annual gathering in the Swiss Alps ventured far and wide in the issues tackled, but it produced limited success in tying it all together into a compelling narrative and concrete path forward.
Date: Wednesday January 30, 2019
Canada-China meeting: National Security and Human Rights
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...developing red lines The discussion noted that we need to know the risks as well as the opportunities for free trade. Our trade negotiators need to be well-informed about the...
Date: Tuesday December 19, 2017
Options for a Canada-China FTA Negotiation Strategy
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...officials in the 2012 Canada-China Economic Complementarities Study, which selected seven sectors for analysis of trade patterns and existing trade and investment barriers, and complementarities and opportunities for growth. Based...
Date: Tuesday June 20, 2017
Diversification not Dependence: A Made-in-Canada China Strategy
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Canada can truly diversify its trade and break its dependence on a single partner by pursuing a strategy built on sectoral trade agreements with China.
Date: Thursday October 11, 2018
Navigating the New World Disorder
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The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated developing geopolitical shifts that are unlikely to dissipate even after the pandemic's economic shock wanes. As a country long used to a more benign international environment, the future prosperity, security and well-being of Canadians will depend in no small measure on how well we navigate this unfamiliar world.
Date: Thursday July 16, 2020
The Canada-China Relationship
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...put at risk” while 47% say “Chinese investment is good for Canada’s economy and the risks are minimal”. Free Trade with China? Canadians are evenly divided on whether free trade...
Date: Saturday December 9, 2017
China and Canada in an Era of Global Disruption
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...fast-track global talent visas. Establishing new trade links: CETA (Canada-Europe Trade Agreement) ratified; re-negotiation of NAFTA; pursuing trade agreements in Asia (China, India, Japan). Building strategic infrastructure: new National Infrastructure...
Date: Tuesday December 19, 2017