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Canada can’t trade on hope

  • Canada does not have the luxury of moving slowly. Because the world is getting less stable—and our closest trading partner is getting less predictable.
Opinion | BY RODRIGUE GILBERT | February 23, 2026
Wayne Long, Secretary of State responsible for the Canada Revenue Agency and Financial Institutions, said the Trade Diversification Corridors Fund allows investment in projects across the country 'to expand Canada’s reach and help double our overseas exports within a decade,' in a Finance press release on Nov. 8, 2025. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Canada can’t trade on hope

Opinion | BY RODRIGUE GILBERT | February 23, 2026
  • Canada does not have the luxury of moving slowly. Because the world is getting less stable—and our closest trading partner is getting less predictable.

Canada can’t trade on hope

Opinion | BY RODRIGUE GILBERT | February 23, 2026
  • Canada does not have the luxury of moving slowly. Because the world is getting less stable—and our closest trading partner is getting less predictable.
Wayne Long, Secretary of State responsible for the Canada Revenue Agency and Financial Institutions, said the Trade Diversification Corridors Fund allows investment in projects across the country 'to expand Canada’s reach and help double our overseas exports within a decade,' in a Finance press release on Nov. 8, 2025. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Nation-building starts with builders

  • This country urgently needs to invest in skills training, take action to scale apprenticeships, and work with us to destigmatize careers in the trades.
Opinion | BY RODRIGUE GILBERT | October 8, 2025
Don’t leave the people who pour the concrete, run the cranes, and keep the lights on out of the conversation, writes Rodrigue Gilbert. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Nation-building starts with builders

Opinion | BY RODRIGUE GILBERT | October 8, 2025
  • This country urgently needs to invest in skills training, take action to scale apprenticeships, and work with us to destigmatize careers in the trades.

Nation-building starts with builders

Opinion | BY RODRIGUE GILBERT | October 8, 2025
  • This country urgently needs to invest in skills training, take action to scale apprenticeships, and work with us to destigmatize careers in the trades.
Don’t leave the people who pour the concrete, run the cranes, and keep the lights on out of the conversation, writes Rodrigue Gilbert. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Trade, housing, prosperity: none of it happens without construction

  • The truth is this: if the government wants to build the economy of the future, they need to partner—urgently and seriously—with the sector that
Opinion | BY RODRIGUE GILBERT | August 4, 2025

Trade, housing, prosperity: none of it happens without construction

Opinion | BY RODRIGUE GILBERT | August 4, 2025
  • The truth is this: if the government wants to build the economy of the future, they need to partner—urgently and seriously—with the sector that

Trade, housing, prosperity: none of it happens without construction

Opinion | BY RODRIGUE GILBERT | August 4, 2025
  • The truth is this: if the government wants to build the economy of the future, they need to partner—urgently and seriously—with the sector that

If we can’t move it, we can’t sell it: reducing Canada’s reliance on the U.S. demands a national trade infrastructure strategy

  • While peer nations have long-term strategies to build and maintain the infrastructure that supports trade, Canada stands alone among its global competitors in lacking
Opinion | BY CANDACE LAING, RODRIGUE GILBERT, KEITH CURRIE, DENNIS DARBY, BRAD SCOTT, CHRIS LORENC, GARY MAR | July 19, 2025
With global instability mounting and growing threats from south of the border, the stakes for Canada’s economy and our ability to compete have never been higher. Image courtesy of Pexels/Avijit Singh

If we can’t move it, we can’t sell it: reducing Canada’s reliance on the U.S. demands a national trade infrastructure strategy

Opinion | BY CANDACE LAING, RODRIGUE GILBERT, KEITH CURRIE, DENNIS DARBY, BRAD SCOTT, CHRIS LORENC, GARY MAR | July 19, 2025
  • While peer nations have long-term strategies to build and maintain the infrastructure that supports trade, Canada stands alone among its global competitors in lacking

If we can’t move it, we can’t sell it: reducing Canada’s reliance on the U.S. demands a national trade infrastructure strategy

Opinion | BY CANDACE LAING, RODRIGUE GILBERT, KEITH CURRIE, DENNIS DARBY, BRAD SCOTT, CHRIS LORENC, GARY MAR | July 19, 2025
  • While peer nations have long-term strategies to build and maintain the infrastructure that supports trade, Canada stands alone among its global competitors in lacking
With global instability mounting and growing threats from south of the border, the stakes for Canada’s economy and our ability to compete have never been higher. Image courtesy of Pexels/Avijit Singh
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