Lawrence Herman
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Opinion: Canada wants closer EU ties. But we already have close EU ties – and they’re a mess (opens the original)
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Lawrence Herman is counsel at Herman & Associates, a member of the Expert Group on Canada-U.S. Relations and a senior fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto. For a multitude of reasons, Canada will never become an “associate member” of the European Union. It was never in the realm of possibility. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen would have known this. Her offer last week at the European Parliament wasn’t off the cuff but was carefully orchestrated within EU circles and wa
Opinion: Canada was too soft on the U.S. for too long. That was our blunder (opens the original)
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Lawrence Herman is counsel at Herman & Associates, a member of the Expert Group on Canada-U.S. Relations and a senior fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto. The collapse of trade negotiations in Washington last week should come as no surprise. Given unacceptable U.S. demands, some that surfaced at the eleventh hour, Prime Minister Mark Carney was correct in ending the talks, recalling the team and confirming that Canada will be retaliating, dollar for dollar, against the latest U.S. tarif
Opinion: An independent Alberta would need to negotiate its trade and treaty relationships (opens the original)
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Lawrence Herman is an international lawyer with Herman & Associates, a member of the Expert Group on Canada-US Relations and a senior fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto. Let’s enter the world of fantasy for a moment and assume that somehow Alberta were to become a totally separate country, a kind of North American “Alberta-stan.” While a far-fetched scenario, it’s instructive to consider what this would mean for Alberta, both geopolitically and in terms of its standing under internatio
Opinion: ‘Fortress North America’ is a bad idea in service of a bad deal (opens the original)
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Lawrence Herman is counsel at Herman & Associates, a member of the Expert Group on Canada-U.S. Relations and a senior fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto. It comes as no surprise that the U.S. has refused to extend the USMCA for another 16 years. That outcome was foreseen for weeks by anyone following Donald Trump’s MAGA trade agenda. In fact, the whole review process in the agreement is largely a sham, designed to give maximum leverage to the American side once that review began. The r
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