David Olive
Reporter at The (Toronto) Star
David Olive is a business and current affairs columnist for the Toronto Star, and writes The Great Recession blog.
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1 week ago |
thespec.com | David Olive
Ottawa soon will have a $74-billion decision to make. On March 14, Prime Minister Mark Carney put that purchase on “review” to determine if Canada should be buying jet fighters from a country waging economic war against it. Canada is legally and financially committed to taking delivery of the first allotment of 16 F-35s, with deliveries scheduled to begin next year. But the balance of the order, 72 planes, is now in doubt. There is urgency here.
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2 weeks ago |
thespec.com | David Olive
It is not unrealistic to believe that we are at the dawn of a new era of unprecedented Canadian prosperity. To be sure, the early going in that transition will be rough. Last week saw the Trump administration unleash a worldwide trade war so sweeping that it imposes tariffs on uninhabited volcanic atolls about 1,700 kilometres off the coast of Antarctica. A tariff-induced recession in both Canada and the U.S. now seems a certainty.
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2 weeks ago |
thespec.com | David Olive
Cracks are emerging in the Canadian national unity spurred by threats of U.S. annexation. Those combined trade disruptions with the world’s two largest economies are taking their toll on Canadian unity, a problem the next prime minister must address as a first order of business. For instance, it’s possible that a sizable export tax on Canadian oil exports to the U.S., principally from Alberta, would be sufficient to force Trump to end his tariff war on Canada.
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2 weeks ago |
stcatharinesstandard.ca | David Olive
Cracks are emerging in the Canadian national unity spurred by threats of U.S. annexation. Those combined trade disruptions with the world’s two largest economies are taking their toll on Canadian unity, a problem the next prime minister must address as a first order of business.
Trump may want to take over Canada — but beating us into submission with tariffs isn’t going to work
3 weeks ago |
thespec.com | David Olive
Do you worry that the United States will take over Canada? Many Canadians do, though avian flu and the measles outbreak are more realistic threats than a U.S. annexation of Canada. Paul Arcand, a veteran political observer at Montreal’s La Presse, writes that “I get asked this question every day” — will America use military force to take over Canada?
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