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
Stories by Ralph Goodale

‘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