Quote-Unquote: Lumber, Insurance, TPP and China

Some of the trade talk over the past week: Softwood lumber: talking trade remedies . Canadian companies “made it clear that they are not prepared to accept the deal at any cost; rather stakeholders urged the federal government to prepare for U.S. trade remedy action and litigation in parallel with negotiations. Canadian stakeholders continue to tell us very clearly that no deal is better than a bad deal. So we need to be prepared for the possibility that a new...