Canada is facing a seemingly intractable dilemma: we’re trying to broaden our international trade and investment portfolio, at a time when our alternatives have narrowed. Nothing illustrates this problem more acutely than the “it’s complicated” …
Read MoreAs Canada looks to diversify its international trade and foreign investment portfolio, there are encouraging signs that it is moving to seize blue-chip opportunities being created in the United Kingdom. The UK is a G-7 country …
Read MoreA journalist covering the 2019 G7 Biarritz Summit in August caused a social media firestorm when she tweeted out a photo of four leaders in mid-embrace. The problem wasn’t the picture, it was the accompanying …
Read MoreBritish Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt recently reiterated that a post-Brexit United Kingdom will look to leverage its global networks including, significantly, the Commonwealth. As Canada faces its own trade uncertainty, we should do the same. With …
Read MoreIn his 2007 book Think Big, Donald Trump argued that in tough negotiations the United States government should rely on professionals from the private sector. Noting great deal makers are rare, “like gifted doctors and …
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