Navigating a new global era
These volatile times call for broadening our relationships with countries beyond North America, moving promptly to pay our NATO dues, and thinking more militarily.
There goes the neighbourhood
If our old relationship with the U.S. ‘is over,’ then we can learn from our southernmost neighbour how to be creative in rethinking what constitutes defence spending in Canada.
There is no Team Canada strategy without Indigenous people
We want to work together to develop the resources that will help us make our way economically in the uncertain world created by Donald Trump.
Carney grasps a key point that Poilievre has missed in the trade war
It can never be politics as usual again with the United States. Mark Carney has talked about the political imperative that this new and totally unexpected truth poses for this country.
Election campaign should be about creating a new economy, not extending and expanding the old one
So far, the politicians are letting us down. If the job of government is to represent the future to the present, they get a failing grade. But we will all be losers.
Liberals’ lead could change if domestic concerns surpass U.S. tensions, says pundits, pollster
Prime Minister Mark Carney ‘is still largely untested’ in the political arena, and Jamie Carroll said ‘Liberals should take almost no comfort from sitting on top of the biggest, fastest polling swing in modern Canadian history. It’s a helluva lot better than being on the other side of it, but the folks I speak to on the campaign appreciate the precariousness of the moment.’
Cost of living, housing the top priority for young voters, not Trump
In a federal election dominated by trade and sovereignty, generation Z is prioritizing affordability when casting their ballots, a recent Abacus Data poll suggests.
Alberta Premier Smith calls retaliatory tariffs ‘most harmful’ to Canadian business, wants CUSMA negotiation after federal election
‘Everybody is injured by [tariff wars], and so the sooner we can get to a renegotiated Canada-U.S. free trade agreement … the better,’ said Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
Rediscovering the Commonwealth foreign policy
The Commonwealth provides a means for re-engaging a wider spectrum of states. While this includes Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, all highly likeminded actors, it reaches well beyond. It is an institution that includes rising global powers, such as India, Malaysia, Nigeria, and South Africa. In a fractious, more dangerous world, these are relationships Canada needs to cultivate.
Here’s the best strategy Carney can follow negotiating with Trump
All leaders across Canada should be working with each other and the federal government to build up a strong domestic economy in the same areas Mark Carney has promoted with the U.S.
