Kevin Price, Host of the nationally syndicated Price of Business Show recently discussed the problem of lead both in the US and Canada. Will this move from an isolated problem or show up everywhere? The BBC reports: “The amount of lead in the water supply of major Canadian cities exceeded safe levels in hundreds of…
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Crunch Time for NAFTA 2.0
Prompt ratification of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is critical to North America — and Texas in particular — remaining competitive with producers in Europe and Asia, according to an expert at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. “While (the) USMCA is far from perfect, its approval will maintain most of the advantages of…
Canadian Consumers will See a Jump in Food Prices
The average Canadian family is expected to spend $411 more on food in 2019 than in 2018, bringing the total cost of healthy food to $12,157 for the year, according to Canada’s Food Price Report 2019. This is the report’s 9th edition, and the second time it has been released jointly by Dalhousie University and…
GOP Leaders Celebrate New Trade Deal with Mexico and Canada
President Trump has said from the beginning that his tariffs were designed to get trading partners back to the table and to hammer out deals that benefits all parties. One of the first areas of focus was with Canada and Mexico. We are now seeing the fruit of that labor. House Ways and Means Committee…