by jpitney | Aug 17, 2025 | Canada, Foreign Policy, Mexico, Reagan, Russia, Trade
Ronald Reagan’s Announcement of Candidacy, November 13, 1979: On the foreign front, the decade of the 1980s will place severe pressures upon the United States and its allies. We can expect to be tested in ways calculated to try our patience, to confound...
by jpitney | Jul 22, 2025 | Canada, Economic Policy, Reagan, Trade
Robert Zoellick at WSJ: After the Trump-Biden era fades into history, which party will offer an alternative to costly, backward-looking industrial policies? While Vice President JD Vance lectures Europeans on democracy and philosophizes about state-led capitalism,...
by jpitney | Apr 18, 2025 | Canada, Trade
Gov. Jared Polis, interview about tariffs in The Washington Post: The risk has delayed and canceled investments in manufacturing in Colorado and across the country. Nobody knows if they can even get the parts and materials they need. Nobody knows if they’ll be able to...
by jpitney | Mar 23, 2025 | Canada, Reagan, Trade
President Reagan’s Remarks on Signing the United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement Implementation Act of 1988. September 28, 1988: This legislation reflects overwhelming support for the elimination of barriers to trade between the United States and Canada. It...
by jpitney | May 26, 2022 | Canada, International Relations, Trade
At The National Post, John Ivson profiles David Cohen, the US Ambassador to Canada: Cohen said he would characterize the trade relationship as being “open, friendly and enormously productive,” but that disagreements are inevitable. “The way to test the quality and...
