Britain exports thousands of tonnes of beef into Canada, but hardly a morsel of Canadian beef gets into the U.K. A negotiated remedy needs to be found, or this issue will ultimately end up in dispute settlement litigation. | File photo

Trade with the U.K. has issues, opportunities

Canada benefits from more trade agreements with more countries than virtually any other nation. That makes sense, since we are a big, well-endowed country with large productive capacity, a relatively small domestic market and we need to export. So Canada has long been a keen advocate of a robust, rules-based multilateral trading system, including effective […] Read more

A former federal cabinet minister makes the argument for completing the original plan for the South Saskatchewan River project by building conduits to carry water from Lake Diefenbaker across a much larger portion of Saskatchewan’s grain belt.  |  George Kleinsasser photo

‘Big water’ vision may help in a crisis

It’s sometimes said that “a crisis is a terrible thing to waste,” meaning we need to learn from painful situations to avoid repeating past mistakes, and in rebuilding our lives after disaster has struck, we should build back better than what was there before. To prevent the COVID-19 pandemic from claiming tens of thousands of […] Read more