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Liberal MP Anthony Housefather is clamoring for the violent suppression of McGill students protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It is an odious escalation in the Israel lobby’s bid to suppress democracy at the prestigious university.
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This episode features insights into the short-term priorities to get Canada back on a path of non-inflationary growth and the longer term road ahead to closing the investment gap, increasing innovation and raising productivity growth. Looking beyond this horizon, the authors also discuss how governments and businesses can create the conditions to compete in a changing world and to grow the economy sustainably. Listen to our June 2023 Economic Outlook webinar, featuring former Bank of Canada Governor David Dodge and former Executive Director in the International Monetary Fund IMF, Serge Dupont.
Canadian exporters in various sectors sometimes face barriers created by foreign laws, regulations or their interpretation. The vast majority of impediments take the form of product regulatory requirements such as product labelling or technical specifications, and for agricultural products such as meats and grains, food safety rules. These barriers may be contrary to the importing country's obligations under international trade agreements, particularly where they vary from internationally- accepted standards. However, litigating locally may be costly, and state-to-state dispute settlement must...
The European Union will soon require EU importers of certain carbon-intensive products—specifically, iron and steel, aluminum, fertilizer, cement, electricity, and hydrogen—to declare greenhouse gas emissions GHGs embedded in their imports and pay import taxes that mirror domestic EU carbon prices. The new regulation—referred to as the carbon border adjustment mechanism or CBAM—is intended to “level the playing field” between EU producers of those products who have to pay an internal EU carbon price and foreign producers who do not. GHG reporting requirements will take effect on Oc...