If there’s a terrible traffic jam, and you’re trying to get delivery of goods to the other side, is it smarter to send more trucks or to solve the traffic jam first? It’s a simple metaphor, and one that works well for framing a discussion on addressing infrastructure challenges — there’s no point trying to… Read More
Wow, last day of May already! We are going to end the month on a high note with today’s show. We are talking about everything from trade issues with Carlo Dade with Canada West Foundation to checking in with Jimmi-Lee Jackson of Bayer and chatting about their fungicide, Proline GOLD. Lastly, we’ll have Justin Funk… Read More
In an effort to establish new trade agreements with Asia, the U.S. has announced its intention to enter in to a trade pact named the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. Canada was not included, but experts say there’s no need to fret over the forgotten invitation. Carlo Dade, director of the trade and investment centre with the… Read More
There might be some assumptions about what the impact of the ongoing pandemic has been on the global middle class and there might also be the underlying realities that explain what’s going on. COVID changed everything in supply and production chains and really pointed out the precarious nature of those systems, says Carlo Dade, director… Read More
Natural gas prices have increased in Europe, and China is facing its own issues with coal, leading to energy shortages on both continents. Understanding the likelihood of skyrocketing energy prices in Canada takes some understanding of the factors at work, and to shed light on the situation, Brendan Cooke, policy analyst at Canada West Foundation,… Read More
The federal government has the right to impose a national price on pollution, says the Supreme Court of Canada. That means the government can set the standard by which the provinces deliver carbon pricing. Several provinces and producer groups disagreed with the carbon pricing scheme — and still do, in principle — but with this… Read More
The Supreme Court of Canada upheld the federal government’s right to impose a price on carbon on provinces in a decision announced Thursday morning. The decision passed in a 6-3 ruling. The “price of pollution” is set to increase to $170/tonne by 2030. Agriculture producer groups and politicians opposed to the federal carbon taxation policy… Read More
Canada’s Clean Fuel Standard is likely to be published Friday, kicking off a comment period ahead of the standard becoming law. For a what-we-know and what-we-don’t discussion, we go to Marla Orenstein, of the Canada West Foundation, on this RealAg LIVE! Q&A. Don’t miss a new LIVE! every weekday at 3 pm E on social… Read More
It’s time for another episode of RealAg LIVE! Host Shaun Haney has two exciting guests on today’s show: Carlo Dade, director of the Trade and Investment Centre at Canada West Foundation (CWF), and Sharon Zhengyang Sun, trade policy economist with CWF. RealAg hosts a LIVE! Q&A on a timely topic each weekday on social media… Read More
While we know the meanings of the words carbon and tariff, the term carbon tariff has been floating around in the media lately, and it’s a phrase that maybe some of us haven’t heard before and might not yet fully understand. The entire concept, however, may have some upsides. “Carbon tariffs, or carbon border adjustments,… Read More
Did anyone win in the final version of the New NAFTA? Is trade diversification for Canada just a pipe dream? How come we rarely talk about trade with Mexico? In this edition of RealAg LIVE! with Carlo Dade, director of the trade & investment centre of the Canada West Foundation, host Shaun Haney gets in… Read More
The very word “sustainability” can be a bit of a lightning rod within agriculture. What is it? What does it really mean? What value does it have? Carlo Dade, with the Canada West Foundation, says that there is real value in the term and the practices to achieve sustainable production, but that Canadian agriculture is… Read More
Many of Canada’s smaller farm equipment manufacturers are at risk of being left in the cold by the main U.S.-based manufacturers if the Canadian government doesn’t change its intellectual property rules, say representatives from a Saskatchewan-based company that builds attachments for harvesting equipment. Honey Bee Manufacturing’s general manager, Jamie Pegg, and Scott Smith, manager of… Read More
Canada’s relationship with China could get worse before it gets better, depending on the outcome of the U.S. extradition request for Chinese telecommunications executive Meng Wanzhou, according to an expert on Chinese affairs at the University of Alberta. Farmers in both Canada and the U.S. have been paying close attention to their respective country’s relationship… Read More
The new NAFTA (USMCA) has a path to ratification in the U.S. congress now that the Democrats and the White House have come to terms on negotiated compromises. Both Canada and Mexico will ratify the deals in the coming weeks with relative ease, while the U.S. focuses all its trade threats on the European Union… Read More
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