Trade and Investment Research Project

JFC. Some of us never forgot the sale of armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia under Harper/Trudeau. Not much has changed.

Feds gave Stellantis more than $220M before Brampton decision, records show | CBC News The federal government paid Stellantis more than $220 million to help upgrade its plants in Ontario before the automaker revealed plans to move some production to the U.S., recent records show.

All of this money should be recouped and/or the machinery in the plant seized.

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Are the USTR hearings on #USMCA review being live-streamed anywhere?

Screenshot of the paragraph from the linked document reading "Ensure foreign nations pay their fair share for American innovation: The United States should leverage the Joint Review to fulfill the objective set forth in Section 3 of President Trump’s May 12, 2025, Executive Order, which directed USTR and DOC to address foreign acts, policies or practices that have “the effect of forcing American patients to pay for a disproportionate amount of global pharmaceutical research and development, including by suppressing the price of pharmaceutical products below fair market value in foreign countries.”7 Despite being one of the world’s most developed economies, Canada employs a range of measures that artificially devalue medical innovations developed in the United States and limit and delay patient access to American-made innovative medicines. As a result, Canada spends only 0.32 percent of its GDP per capita on new innovative medicines, compared to 0.78 percent in the United States.8 USTR should require Canada to adopt binding and enforceable trade commitments to achieve an appropriate level of spending on new innovative medicines." with the last sentence highlighted

In an absolutely shocking turn of events, #PhRMA (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America) believes, in their submission to the #USMCA/#CUSMA trade agreement review, that Canada should be paying more for medicines.
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My request to appear at the USTR ‘Hearings on the Operation of the USMCA’ has been granted.

I will appear later this week in Washington, DC.

As the only 🇨🇦 industrial sector advocate among 150+ witnesses, I will be presenting data supporting a mutually-beneficial continuance.

As Canada lobbies for a speedy renewal of #CUSMA, a reminder that the review cannot legally commence until at least six months after USTR reports on its objectives in that review. There is no legal (or otherwise) obligation for Canada to do the same. #cdnpoli #canlab

Fossil fuel lobbyist defends PM's jockstrap foreign policy. Hinges turn both ways. Canada is hinging toward or back into, not away from, the world Trump is trying to create.

POLITICO Pro: Canadian ambassador outlines ‘core objective’ for USMCA review Kirsten Hillman says the trade deal has been good for Canada — and "extremely successful" for the U.S.

For the record, Canada has not yet published the results of its consultation on the #CUSMA review. Interviews like this do not give confidence the government cares much what anyone told them. #cdnpoli

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Carney: activists seek clarity on feminist foreign policy Dozens of advocates for women and LGBTQ+ people in Canada and abroad are demanding clarity from the Carney government on its message shift on feminism.

Advocates demand clarity from Carney on status of feminist foreign policy

Ecuador suscribe acuerdos militares y de seguridad El Ministerio de Defensa de Ecuador, Gian Carlo Loffredo indicó que Ecuador suscribió este 1 de diciembre acuerdos con Reino Unido y Caanadá.

Canada signs security and defence agreement with Ecuador. 🤔 www.larepublica.ec/blog/2025/12...

Canada’s “Diversification” Trade Deal Is a Gift to Autocrats Canadian prime minister Mark Carney is touting a trade deal with the UAE. Behind the talk of investment and partnership lies a trade agenda that weakens rights protections, boosts natural gas, and rei...

"For Canada to announce that it is seeking closer ties to the UAE at this moment looks ignorant at best and callous at worst."

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Trump Bribing Honduran Voters To Restore Narcotrafficking Government to Power Trump endorsed the nominee of the right-wing party, while pledging to pardon its most recent president, who sits in U.S. federal prison for drug trafficking.

Trump Bribing Honduran Voters To Restore Narcotrafficking Government to Power
#Honduras #elections #RixiMoncada

Manitoba sticking to ban of U.S. alcohol since it's a 'pain point' for Trump | CBC News Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew showed no willingness Friday to relax his province's ban on American alcohol products. He argued the prohibition, enacted by several provinces, has been one of Canada's resp...

"Premier Wab Kinew showed no willingness Friday to relax his province's ban on American alcohol products. He argued the prohibition, enacted by several provinces, has been one of Canada's responses to the U.S. trade dispute the Trump administration has noticed."

🙏 Kinew!
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Trump says airlines should consider Venezuelan airspace closed President Donald Trump’s announcement follows growing U.S. threats to attack Venezuela.

Donald Trump has zero authority to launch a war against Venezuela without a congressional declaration of war, as required by the War Powers Clause of the Constitution. He will be committing yet another flagrant abuse of power + impeachable offense if he launches this illegal war. wapo.st/3XXT5L4 1/

I never said I wanted to double exports, certainly not of those products.

The oil pipeline is not going to be built. The focus on a nonviable oil pipeline (by critics and supporters) masks the more problematic doubling down on slightly less nonviable LNG (w/out fixing existing leaky pipes and wells) + nuclear boondoggles, while giving AB an emissions holiday.

Opinion: Ottawa risks billions in investments for a pipeline to nowhere B.C. stakeholders’ voices are not being heard in discussions about building pipelines that make little economic sense

You're assuming the pipeline will make us richer? www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

U.S.-Owned Oil Sands Giants Send Profits Out of Canada Despite Public Support for Resource Sovereignty Canada’s biggest oil sands producers are sending a large share of their profits out of the country to their shareholders in the United States, the CEO of the Trottier Family Foundation warns in an opi...

Another pipeline to the BC coast would mainly serve US, not Asian, customers. But more importantly it would serve US shareholders, the majority owners of Canada's largest oil sands companies. www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...

Important 🧵 here on the truly depressing Carney-Smith MOU today. Pulse check: yes Canada is still a ridiculous petrostate.

Is Carney’s climate credibility crumbling? - CCPA The following is a re-print of the October 2025 edition of Shift Storm, the CCPA’s monthly newsletter which focuses on the intersection of work and climate change. Click here to subscribe to Shift Sto...

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘a true climate competitiveness strategy needs to include results & objectives, investment & prohibition. Delivering 1/2 a strategy—especially one w/out a guiding vision & w/out the regulatory tools to enforce it—is no strategy at all’ @policyalternatives.ca

From @bloomberg.com this morning. US frets about Chinese imports of raw soybeans while China is upgrading oversupply into value-added oil exports to India.

Barrick resolves Mali mining dispute, drops ICSID arbitration - African Law & Business The end of the bitter dispute will see Barrick resume operational control of the local gold mining complex and secure the release of its four imprisoned employees.

Under the agreement, Barrick will take over operational control of the Loulo-Gounkoto complex, which is owned 80% by Barrick and 20% by the government of Mali. The state will also end its blockade of gold exports from the mining complex. www.africanlawbusiness.com/news/barrick...

Prime Minister Carney announces new measures to protect and transform Canada’s steel and lumber industries Canada’s new government has moved quickly to protect and strengthen the sectors most affected by U.S. tariffs – introducing new measures to help workers gain new skills, support businesses as they mod...

Some of these measures related to steel, aluminum and lumber are potentially nation-building in ways the recently announced major projects are most not. Remissions on US steel imports to end next year — about time we created incentives to renew the sector. #cdnpoli www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...

Martin Regg Cohn: Doug Ford’s Buy Ontario Act could easily be renamed the Selling Out Canada Act Ontario’s premier is taking a page from Donald Trump’s Fortress America — by putting his own province, and his personal political fortunes, first.

There are many reasons to despair about the direction of Ontario policy. Having cities and provincial agencies buying more goods and services from Ontario firms is not one of them. This article is disappointingly alarmist. www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

Canadian steel industry's plea to B.C.: U.S. trade war changes everything Industry executives are making the case it has more than enough capacity to replace up to 80 per cent of the country's steel imports.

Buy Canadian steel; tax American steel.
#cdnpoli

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Will Canada ignore human rights violations to advance free trade with Ecuador? Over the past 18 months, the Canadian government has negotiated a free trade agreement with Ecuador, claiming the two countries

Will Canada ignore human rights violations to advance free trade with Ecuador?

The Canadian government must not remain indifferent to the bloodshed and the incontrovertible reality of a grave human rights crisis in Ecuador.

Commentary: Vivian Idrovo and Kathy Price
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Carney weighing D.C. trip next week after dismissing questions about speaking to Trump | CBC News Prime Minister Mark Carney dodged questions about the last time he spoke to his U.S. counterpart Sunday, saying 'who cares?' when pressed by reporters to say when the two most recently made contact.

Canadians probably enjoy the subtle sniping at Trump, but the PM may come to regret making the Canada-US trade war about him, what he personally finds irritating and/or important. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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