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"We have a U.S. president(-elect) with a strong mandate, who is a powerful negotiator who can spot weakness from a mile away," Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Tuesday.

Hoekstra served as U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands during Trump's first term as president. The current U.S. envoy to Canada, David Cohen, has held the post since 2021.

"Canadian businesses just have to be prepared for some challenges over the next four years, no matter who wins," said Keller, a vice-president with government relations firm StrategyCorp.

Both presidential candidates have campaigned on protectionist policies that could cause uncertainty for Canadian trade. Whoever takes the White House will be in charge during the review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico agreement in 2026.

Investor-state dispute settlement courts have awarded more than US$100 billion of public money to corporations — largely in settlements arising from new green regulations and other public measures that impacted their fossil fuel, mining and other projects.

He would have deserved to be honoured as the "Greenest PM" for only half of what was accomplished.

Tributes to Mulroney and his substantial political and personal legacy are sure to dominate when the sitting resumes March 18. 

The federal government is lashing out at the U.S. Commerce Department over plans to raise duties on Canadian softwood lumber.

It's a truism in foreign policy circles that the world learned some hard lessons from Donald Trump's volatile first term as president.

A progressive public policy think tank is urging the federal government to side against oil and gas transmission giant TC Energy in its ongoing dispute with the United States over the ill-fated Keystone XL project.

Canada and Mexico basked on Wednesday, January 11, 2023, in the glow of a major trade win over the United States as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wrapped up a trilateral summit aimed at charting a course for North American excellence. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden are meeting face to face this morning as the North American Leaders' Summit begins in earnest. 

Supply-chain turbulence is here to stay, so what is Canada doing about it?

It's setting up as a right-wing clash of the titans, a battle royal between Republican leviathans in search of the ultimate political prize.

Upon closer inspection, the treaty Canada negotiated with the European Union from 2009 to 2014 is completely out of step with the times. To begin with, it contains no reference to the Paris climate agreement.