“Unity”: Biden’s message for America
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“The will of the people has been heard and the will of the people has been heeded,” said Joseph R. Biden, Jr., the newly sworn-in 46th president of the United States in his inauguration speech on Jan. 20, while overlooking Capitol Hill.
Sitting adjacent to the president, Vice President Kamala Devi Harris made history as the first Black and South Asian American woman to hold the position, along with her husband Doug Emhoff, the Nation’s first Second Gentleman.
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Sputnik International
WASHINGTON President Biden is expected to fulfill a campaign pledge Monday by detailing his Buy American plan, an initiative that will be watched closely by other countries mindful of another of his promises to mend fences with trading partners.
Domestic-purchase plans put other governments on alert, causing concern that their companies would be excluded from the U.S. s huge government-procurement market when Washington is making massive investments to fight the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic. It s particularly relevant to Canada and the U.S. because of our deeply integrated economies, said Colin Robertson, a former Canadian diplomat who is now a vice president at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. Once the thing goes into effect, there will be Canadian companies who will say, Oh, we are excluded. Then, they will begin to squawk.
Canadian companies that bid on American government contracts could be cut out of the procurement process if Joe Biden follows through on his Buy American plan after he becomes U.S. president today, according to business and trade experts.
Canadian companies that bid on American government contracts could be cut out of the procurement process if Joe Biden follows through on his Buy American plan after he becomes U.S. president today, according to business and trade experts. Manufacturers and exporters in Canada supply a vast range of equipment to public works projects in the […]