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Canada’s #1 cultural export is romance. Writing and published works are Canada’s most significant cultural exports, and Toronto-based Harlequin publishing and its famous romances lead the pack. The...
View ArticleDawson at Council of Foreign Relations
On Friday, June 13, Laura Dawson spoke at the Council of Foreign Relations Conference in New York City on NAFTA’s past and future. Other panelists ncluded Shannon O’Neill, Edward Alden, and Robert...
View ArticleNewsletter: Spotlight on New Talent
Have you ever heard of cabotage laws? Familiar with the term “trade infrastructure”? What are your thoughts on the implications of the U.S midterm elections for Canada? These are some of the topics...
View ArticleJeffrey Phillips in CBC on climate change targets
Dawson Strategic Managing Director Jeffrey Phillips is quoted in a CBC News story on the Canadian government’s new emission reduction targets. Although Canada had previously indicated aligning its...
View ArticleWork Truck Show 2016 Wrap Up
It is fair to say that in the work truck world, the annual NTEA – Association for the Work Truck Industry Work Truck Show is kind of a big deal. And once again, North America’s largest work truck...
View ArticleCanada-United States Cross-Border Trade
The United States and Canada share the world’s largest and most comprehensive trading relationship, and the numbers tell it all. Each and every day, 400,000 people cross the border, along with over $2...
View ArticleCanada-US Cross-Border Compliance Guide
NTEA – The Association for the Work Truck Industry (NTEA) along with Dawson Strategic released a new Cross-Border Compliance Guide that was covered in an article from ConstructionEquipmentGuide.com on...
View ArticleDawson Strategic discusses what Trump Presidency means for North America
With the surprising win of Donald Trump last week, many questions have been circling about what this means for Canada and Mexico. With this in mind, Jeffrey Phillips and Anna Barrera were interviewed...
View ArticlePhillips discusses Trump, KXL, and Canada’s Pipeline Strategy
(Alex Panetta/Canadian Press) The fact that President-Elect Donald Trump has mentioned that the Keystone XL pipeline will be approved during his administration has caused some heads to turn in...
View ArticleThe future of the Canada-Mexico relationship in a renegotiated NAFTA
By Anna Barrera (Research Associate, Dawson Strategic) April 28, 2017 Canada and Mexico have had a strong relationship spanning more than 70 years. Their trade relationship grew with the signing of...
View ArticleInternational Trade and the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Region
Can we improve the coordination of how trade agreements are negotiated to better support vital bi-national supply chains like those in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Region? This is the key question...
View ArticleNAFTA 2.0: Rhetoric vs. Reality Part 1
By Noah Arshinoff August 31, 2017 There’s a lot of noise surrounding the NAFTA re-negotiations (or as Mexico and Canada like to frame it, the “modernization”). Through all the media, analysis,...
View ArticleNAFTA 2.0: RHETORIC VS. REALITY PT. 2
By Noah Arshinoff September 20, 2017 Sunset clauses, virtue signaling, warp speed and right-to-work. Since Round 2 of NAFTA 2.0 negotiations wrapped up, these words have been bandied about in press...
View ArticleNAFTA 2.0: RHETORIC VS. REALITY PT. 3
October 10, 2017 By Noah Arshinoff and Samukele Ncube If round 3 of the NAFTA re-negotiation was trying to emulate the undeserved sleepy reputation of its host city (Ottawa), it succeeded. Most...
View ArticleNAFTA 2.0: Rhetoric vs. Reality Pt. 4
November 17, 2017 By Noah Arshinoff The tone of negotiations has soured since the last instalment of this blog series. The NAFTA negotiations are now being dominated by talk of “poison pills” and a...
View ArticleCanada-United States Cross-Border Trade
The United States and Canada share the world’s largest and most comprehensive trading relationship, and the numbers tell it all. Each and every day, 400,000 people cross the border, along with over $2...
View ArticleCanada-US Cross-Border Compliance Guide
NTEA – The Association for the Work Truck Industry (NTEA) along with Dawson Strategic released a new Cross-Border Compliance Guide that was covered in an article from ConstructionEquipmentGuide.com on...
View ArticleDawson Strategic discusses what Trump Presidency means for North America
With the surprising win of Donald Trump last week, many questions have been circling about what this means for Canada and Mexico. With this in mind, Jeffrey Phillips and Anna Barrera were interviewed...
View ArticlePhillips discusses Trump, KXL, and Canada’s Pipeline Strategy
(Alex Panetta/Canadian Press) The fact that President-Elect Donald Trump has mentioned that the Keystone XL pipeline will be approved during his administration has caused some heads to turn in...
View ArticleThe future of the Canada-Mexico relationship in a renegotiated NAFTA
By Anna Barrera (Research Associate, Dawson Strategic) April 28, 2017 Canada and Mexico have had a strong relationship spanning more than 70 years. Their trade relationship grew with the signing of...
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