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In January 2002, I became the first Canadian minister in more than 40 years to visit Afghanistan. My visit as Foreign Affairs minister followed shortly after the col- lapse...

Canadiens et Américains sont d’accord : le libre-échange a profité à nos deux pays, dont la situation serait moins avantageuse s’il n’existait pas. Les deux tiers d’entre eux estiment...

La double menace du protectionnisme et du relâchement de la vigilance politique sont parmi les plus grands risques auxquels s’exposent les économies canadienne, américaine et mondiale dans les années...

The US-Canada Free trade Agreement (FTA), and its extension, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), is passing an anniversary of sorts, celebrated by free trade proponents as a...

In the fall of 1975, in a small, private Ottawa hotel dining room, two senior American political consultants were chatting amiably with three Canadians party officials. A Liberal, a...

Twenty years ago, in the fall of 1987, the Canada-US free trade negotiations hovered precariously between success and failure. Time was running out. President Reagan’s authority to negotiate a...

Twenty years ago, one of the key goals in negotiating the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was to address the problem of trade remedies. Canadian industry had become increasingly...

Twenty years on, those who were there remember the high drama of the final moments of the negotiations to achieve a free trade agreement between Canada and the United...

In macroeconomic policy circles the trio of monetary independence, free trade/capital mobility and fixed exchange rates has come to be labelled the unholy trinity, since a country can choose...

The 1980s were meaningful years in Canada’s eco- nomic development. It was a decade full of booms, busts, change and adapting to new realities. After the euphoria of Expo...

October 3, 2007, marks the 20th anniversary of completion of the negotiation of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement that was signed on January 2, 1988, and came into effect...

Canada and the United States once experienced a dozen years of free-trade linkages way back in the 1850s and 1860s. At the time of the negotiation of the Elgin-Marcy...

At the end of 2006, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) covered a combined economy of more than $14 trillion and a population of about 435 million people....

It might help in understanding US attitudes to the NAFTA to visualize the American perspective of North American geography. From this optic, the continent is a house: Canada is...

Sur les 23 principaux accords économiques régionaux en existence recensés par la CNUCED, deux ont eu et ont toujours des effets intégrateurs significatifs, l’Union européenne (UE) et l’Accord de...

There are two main concerns expressed about the Canada’s economic dependence on the US. One is the ”œall the eggs in one basket” concern relat- ed to increased risk...

Deux images de mon été : une attente de près de deux heures au poste frontalier de Philipsburg, en me demandant si les quelques aliments emportés pour un bref...

Justice Scalia espouses what he would call a doctrine of judicial restraint ”” he does so with such success that the New Yorker says he has gained the status...

Parler de constitution, c’est détourner l’attention des vrais problé€mes, affirme Gordon Campbell, premier ministre de la Colombie-Britannique. Il s’agit laÌ€ d’une opinion répandue face aÌ€ la proposition du gouvernement...

With the close of the Francophonie Summit I had to face the alarming fact that the end point for a successful conclusion to the free trade talks was only...

Before the publication of Brian Mulroney’s memoirs, there was one sure bet: whatever he wrote ”” and whatever he left out ”” would tick off someone. If he took...

At the risk of sounding insensitive, Ronald Reagan’s death did wonders for his historical repu- tation. Since the week-long, coast-to- coast funeral festivities in June 2004, the public discussion...

Dans l’édition estivale de la revue Options politiques, le professeur Marcel Boyer établit un diagnostic trop sévère sur la santé de l’économie québécoise. À force de jouer les Cassandre, il...