Yes, there will be costs. But on average, we can expect TPP trade liberalization to deliver higher productivity, higher GDP, and higher incomes to Canadians
Tag Archives: Ed Fast
Canada gets soft on bribery
Why rules aimed at cracking down on corruption by mining firms miss the mark
Yesterday in parliamentary irrelevancy
How irrelevant were the responses in QP?
Finger guns in Parliament: A short history
Ed Fast is the subject of but the latest complaint
If you love Canada, do you also have to love Keystone XL?
Thomas Mulcair goes to Washington and upsets Conservatives
A Canada-EU trade deal? ‘Hmm …’
Paul Wells explains why CETA seems so unlikely
Ed Fast on Canada’s shift toward Asia, FTAs and exports of expertise
The minister of international trade talks with Luiza Ch. Savage
The farce is strong in these ones
Among the Conservaties who stood in the House this week and criticized the NDP’s stance on cap-and-trade were Kyle Seeback, Peter Van Loan, Gord Brown, Leon Benoit, Shelly Glover, Chris Warkentin, LaVar Payne, Gerry Ritz, Pierre Poilievre, Christian Paradis, Rick Dykstra, Randy Hoback, Pierre Lemieux, Ed Fast, Tony Clement and Andrew Saxton. These individuals—like Phil McColeman, Joe Preston and Ed Holder, who attacked the NDP last week—were all Conservative candidates in 2008 when the Conservative party platform included a commitment to pursue a continental cap-and-trade system.
The Commons: The joke is on you, Canada
Aaron Wherry on the first day back
Making Canada’s universities the world’s universities
Today in Halifax, Trade Minister Ed Fast officially received a report from Western University president Amit Chakma and the rest of Chakma’s panel on internationalizing Canadian higher education. Here it is, under the horse-tranquilizer title “International Eduction: A Key Driver of Canada’s Future Prosperity.” It’s worth a read, but here’s the short version.