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November 3:A Trump Tower Goes Bust in
Canada ... The failure this week of Trump
Toronto showcased a familiar scenario: big promises, glitzy image, a
Russian-born financier, aggrieved smaller investors – but few losses for the
mogul himself.
The 65-story Trump International Hotel & Tower Toronto has all the glitz and
ambition of the luxury-brand businessman with his name in giant letters near its
spire. It’s the tallest residential skyscraper in Canada, and probably the
fanciest. The hotel’s sleek cream-and-black interiors were inspired by Champagne
and caviar. Every room features Italian Bellino linens and Nespresso
coffeemakers. Guests can book a Trump Experience outing through the Trump
Attache concierge service. Their furry friends are eligible for the Trump Pets
program, which “will fill your best Fido’s tummy with gourmet treats, and see
them off to sleep on a plush dog bed.”
On Tuesday, a Canadian bankruptcy judge placed the glass-and-granite building
into receivership, just four years after Trump and his children cut the ribbon
at its grand opening. Once it’s auctioned off, whether or not Trump is the
leader of the free world by then, his name may well vanish from its marquee.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/trump-tower-goes-bust-canada-214412
December 20: Americans dream of Canada after
Trump ... Americans leaving for Canada dates back all the way back to the
Revolutionary War when 100,000 British loyalists
fled
the 13 colonies. Then there was the Underground Railroad, which
brought thousands of black slaves to Canada in the 1800s.
February 13: Refugees cross to Canada to
escape Donald Trump
In recent months, hundreds of refugees have trickled across the US border into
the western prairie province of Manitoba, which lies above North Dakota and
Montana. Normally, only 40 to 60 cross each year.
https://www.ictj.org/news/refugees-cross-canada-escape-donald-trump
February 13: Indian techies welcome in
Canada after Trump's refugee ban
Indian-origin tech leaders in Canada say the controversial visa and travel
restrictions imposed by US President Donald Trump will be a boon for tech
recruitment and investment in Canada.
"This provides a great opportunity for the best talent from India to come, live
and work in Canada," said Shafin Diamond Tejani, the CEO of Fantasy 360, a
Vancouver-based global leader in creating immersive experiences and games using
Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR).
February 16: Canadian Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau said Thursday that he was not playing a double game by embracing both
protectionist U.S. President Donald Trump and free traders in the EU.
“To the contrary, my message on Monday in Washington was the same as here in
Strasbourg,” Trudeau said. “That we as governments … need to work to create
opportunities for the middle class,” he told reporters after
a speech at the European Parliament, in which he had argued that the EU and
Canada should take a leadership role in the global economy.
Trudeau continued that governments “need to show that we can take concrete
actions to create good jobs [and] to demonstrate that we can do win-win
agreements” by working together “in a respectful and responsible manner.”
March 1: Strategic Cousins Redux - Canada
and Australia in the Age of Trump
For more than seventy-five years, Australia and Canada have looked to the United
States as their primary security guarantors. Increasingly both have also looked
to the Asia-Pacific for their economic prosperity.
March 6: Canada gives $20-million to replace
Trump’s contraception cuts
An international conference, alarmed that U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies
could push women “into the Dark Ages,” has raised nearly $200-million (U.S.)
from Canada and other countries to help replace Mr. Trump’s planned cuts to
contraception and family planning programs.
The Canadian government announced that it will contribute $20-million (Canadian)
to the hastily organized fund. The money will go to five agencies to pay for
contraception supplies, counselling, safe abortion services in countries where
abortion is legal and other family planning programs, primarily in Africa and
other regions of the developing world.
https://www.actioncanadashr.org/canada-gives-20-million-to-replace-trumps-contraception-cuts/
April 21:Canadian Prime
Minister Trudeau responds to Trump’s criticism of dairy industry
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday
that he plans to be respectful and engage the United States with a fact-based
approach to solving problems a day after Donald Trump called Canada a “disgrace”
for policies that hurt American farmers.
Trudeau said during a news conference alongside visiting Italian Prime Minister
Paolo Gentiloni on Parliament Hill that he will stand up for Canada’s interests
and people.
April 25: Why has Trump Imposed Timber
Tariffs on Canada?
Softwood lumber is one of Canada’s largest exports, and
according to Statistics Canada the U.S. buys 80 percent of the supply, most
of which is then used by construction companies to build timber frames for
homes. In total, the trade is estimated to be worth about $6 billion a year,
according to Canadian government data.
May 4: U.S. farm groups pile on Canada as
Trump eyes trade fairness
U.S. poultry exporters, who include Tyson Foods Inc and Pilgrims Pride Corp, as
well as egg sellers, are expected to seek greater access to Canada’s tightly
controlled market in renegotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA).
Trump last month took a swipe at Canada’s dairy system, which prevents
large-scale imports through steep tariffs, and moved to impose tariffs on
Canadian lumber.
Canada is no stranger to the
controversial Trump administration, and it will likely feel its effects for
years to come, particularly when it comes to jobs.
November 14:
Canada woos the Trump-wary on The New York Times homepage
The ad says “It’s all found in Canada,” and it appears right above headlines
about Trump appointing GOP chairman Reince Priebus as chief of staff and
Breitbart leader Steve Bannon as campaign chairman.
December 12:Trump May Actually Be
Right About the Trade Deficit With Canada ... Does
the U.S. run a trade deficit or surplus with Canada? It depends where you look.
President
Donald Trump asserted -- again -- Friday the U.S. runs “a pretty good trade
deficit” with Canada. The claim was quickly rebuffed by Canada’s ambassador to
the U.S., David MacNaughton, who cited
American data saying the opposite was true.
January 20: Canadian prime minister to
bypass Trump in visit to U.S. to rally support for NAFTA
The prime minister of Canada is visiting three cities in the United States next
month to drum up support for NAFTA, but Donald Trump’s Washington is
conspicuously not one of them.
January 30: Canada turned to the WTO because
Trump has threatened NAFTA ... Canada filed a formal World Trade Organization
dispute in December that
seeks to protect billions of dollars of its exports to America that are
suddenly under threat, in part because of President Trump’s NAFTA renegotiation.
What’s different this time is that Ottawa’s dispute could also weaken a U.S.
trade policy
March 6: Trump keeps making a wildly
misleading claim about trade between the US and Canada ... according to an
official White House readout ... Trump told his Canadian counterpart that the
North American Free Trade Agreement "leaves the United States with a trade
deficit."
But the US does not have a trade deficit with Canada.
According to the US Trade Representative, the US actually maintained a $12.5
billion trade surplus with Canada in 2016, the most recent data
available.
March 8: Trudeau says Liberals 'on the right
track' with Trump as Canada eyes steel tariff exemption ... PM says his
government's outreach efforts have had a positive influence
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has a "level of confidence" that Canada
will secure an exemption from hefty U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum,
crediting robust outreach efforts by his Liberal government.
Trudeau said Canada has delivered persuasive arguments to American officials
about the level of integration between the two nations' economies and their
close co-operation on security, from past world wars to modern-day operations.
But the prime minister said he will take it "one step at a time," since he's
dealing with an unpredictable U.S. administration.
May 31: The Trump administration is imposing
tariffs on steel
and aluminum
imports from Europe, Canada and Mexico after a month-long exemption expires at
midnight. Steel imports will be taxed at 25 percent and aluminum at 10 percent
under proclamations Mr. Trump
signed in March and
reconfirmed Thursday.
August: Trump Insults Canada In Phone Call
With Trudeau Over Tariffs
Trump may be terrible at building walls but he sure is great at burning
bridges — according to
CNN, the U.S. President had a 'testy' phone call with Canadian Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau last week regarding the new tariffs targeting Canadian
steel and aluminum imports.
The Trump administration used an old trade law from 1962 to justify the
tariffs as a national security issue. When Trudeau asked how Canada, a
longstanding ally, could be a threat to the U.S., Trump snarkily replied with a
reference to the War of 1812, saying: "Didn't you guys burn down the White
House?"
The problem with that remark is that British troops were actually
responsible for burning down the White House during the War of 1812. Canada at
the time was still a colony of the United Kingdom and gained independence after
the war in 1867. It should also be noted that the act Trump refers to was simply
a British response to an American attack on York, Ontario in 1813.
https://www.narcity.com/news/trump-insults-canada-in-private-phone-call-with-trudeau-over-tariffs
August 27: U.S. and Mexican negotiators
worked through the day Sunday to conclude their talks, which focus primarily on
autos that will be accepted without tariffs in the United States. The agreement
provides that 85 percent of the parts in the car must be made in North America
to be considered for tariff-free imports.
Trump had demanded a rewrite of NAFTA, claiming that Mexico was stealing jobs
and taking advantage of the previous NAFTA agreement, citing the fact that
Mexico enjoyed a $63.6 billion trade surplus with the United States in 2017.
Critics pointed out that much of that surplus came from cars that were assembled
from parts made in the U.S. and Canada, but the total car price was included in
the bilateral Mexican-U.S. trade figures.
There is no formal free trade deal between the US and Mexico, only an agreement
between the two countries on how to resolve key issues in their trade
relationship as part of the NAFTA talks. The US trade representative's office
officially described the agreement as "a preliminary agreement in principle ...
to update the 24-year-old NAFTA with modern provisions representing a 21st
century."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/27/politics/trump-nafta-deal/index.html
December 11: A Canadian judge ruled Tuesday
a Chinese tech executive, detained at the request of the U.S., can be free on
bail while awaiting an extradition hearing.
The judge said Meng Wanzhou must meet stringent conditions aimed at making sure
she doesn't flee Canada for China.
American automakers, aluminum producers, manufacturers and farmers are running
out of time, money and patience as the North American tariff standoff persists,
and they're pleading with the United States to put an end to it.
Industry emissaries are warning U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross that President Donald Trump's tariffs on Mexican
and Canadian steel and aluminum, as well as their reciprocal countermeasures,
are rapidly undermining whatever benefits the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement will
produce once it takes effect.
"The damage from the reciprocal trade actions in the steel dispute far outweighs
any benefit that may accrue to them from the USMCA," the group writes in a
letter released this week by a coalition of more than 40 different industry
associations and lobby groups.
May 5: Canada is leaning on the United
States to help settle a dispute with China, which has started to block imports
of vital Canadian commodities amid a dispute over a detained Huawei executive.
In a sign of increasing frustration at what it sees as a lackluster U.S.
response, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government is signaling it could
withhold cooperation on major issues.
China has upped the pressure on Canada in recent weeks over the arrest of Huawei
Technologies Co Ltd Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, arrested last December
on a U.S. warrant. It halted Canadian canola imports and last week suspended the
permits of two major pork producers.
May 6: A new poll suggests that a majority
of Chinese Canadians in B.C. support the federal government's decision not to
intervene in the Meng Wanzhou case.
