Following all of the political sound and fury and sticker shock of last week’s NATO summit in The Hague, the question of what Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government wants to accomplish with all of that money — on an annual basis — is coming into even sharper focus.
In his first Canada Day address as prime minister, Mark Carney emphasized Canadian unity in a “changing” world.
Hayden King, executive director of the Yellowhead Institute, says both the speed with which it was passed and ideas in the bill remind him of former prime minister Stephen Harper’s omnibus bill that helped create the Idle No More movement.
By quashing the digital services tax, Canadian negotiators paid a kind of toll on the road to a trade deal with the U.S., in that they simply kept the talks rolling. But the move could back Canada against the wall on the far thornier issue of supply management.
Ottawa has eliminated all remaining federal exceptions from the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA), Internal Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland said in a press release on Monday.
U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra says President Donald Trump’s renewed 51st state rhetoric can be taken as a compliment, suggesting that’s how it’s seen by Prime Minister Mark Carney.
The United States will restart trade negotiations with Canada immediately after Canada scrapped its digital services tax targeting U.S. technology firms, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Monday.
The United States resumed trade negotiations with Canada Monday morning, after the federal government scrapped its tax targeting large technology firms.
The federal government is working to break down the interprovincial trade barriers that Mark Carney campaigned on — but one expert says they’re still more of a plan than a reality.
Gov. Gen. Mary Simon has announced 83 appointments to the Order of Canada — a list that includes doctors, diplomats, athletes and authors. The list includes two new companions, 19 officers and 62 members — one of them honorary.
