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Yes, Xena, Warrior Princess, known in real life as Lucy Lawless, responded to our report on the TPP recently published by the Fraser Institue. We are pleased to see that our ideas inspire debate among mortals and superheroes alike.
Students in Point Roberts, a Washington town just south of Richmond, BC, cross an international border every day to attend school in their own state. That’s because the Canada-U.S border divides this peninsula from the mainland. In related news, high school administrators report abnormally high student absences because “the dog ate my passport”. **This is […]
New projects popped up like dandelions this summer and Dawson Strategic enters the fall with a full workload of interesting commercial and trade policy issues. Recent publications include papers on the effects of current trade negotiations on the Canadian pharmaceutical industry, and prospects for Canada in the Trans-Pacific Partnership. We have a forthcoming paper on […]
In “Canada and the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Entering a New Era of Strategic Trade Policy”, recently published by the Fraser Institute, we examine some of the reasons why the TPP is important for achieving Canada’s trade objectives. The TPP provides Canada and its other members with the opportunity to address issues such as electronic commerce, digital […]
Recent investments in the energy sector in Canada and the U.S. have led to significant advances in innovative, cutting-edge technologies that increase the safety and efficiency of resource development. In response to the rapid development of this industry and a constantly changing policy landscape, senior management executives from Canadian and American companies formed the Energy […]
In two recently released papers by the Fraser Institute and the Macdonald Laurier Institute, we examine the issue of Canada’s intellectual property commitments for pharmaceutical products in free trade agreements. In “Strong Medicine: Can Free Trade Agreements Cure Canada’s Pharmaceutical Ills?” published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, we argue that, as a condition of accepting IP […]
One of the largest criminal anti-dumping cases in U.S. history involved honey laundering. Dubbed as ‘Project Honeygate’, the product was imported illegally from China to avoid duties of more than 200%, and some of the honey was even adulterated with antibiotics! The investigation resulted in charges of about $3 million. That’s a buzz-kill for anyone […]
For more than a year, TPP partners have been holding their breath in hopes that the world’s fifth largest economy would join the negotiations. Except for its membership in the WTO, Japan has been a reluctant player in regional and bilateral FTA fora. It has held back because of a number of domestic protectionist measures, […]
On April 12, 2013, the Mowat Centre of the University of Toronto and the Canada-U.S. Law Institute of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland successfully launched the Council of the Great Lakes Region (CGLR). Dawson Strategic played a key role in the inception of this organization. While still maintaining DS client work, Laura Dawson will serve […]
In a May 10 OpEd for iPolitics, I questioned the fairness of Miningwatch’s criticisms of the Canadian Embassy in Mexico under the watch of Ambassador Guillermo Rychinski and argue that a timid foreign service is the last thing Canadian business needs when it is trying to develop a foothold in emerging markets. Following is an excerpt: […]
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