{"id":99397,"date":"2025-02-20T15:27:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T20:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=99397"},"modified":"2025-02-20T16:33:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T21:33:04","slug":"opinion-blayne-haggart-discusses-canadas-free-trade-agreement-with-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2025\/02\/opinion-blayne-haggart-discusses-canadas-free-trade-agreement-with-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: Blayne Haggart discusses Canada\u2019s free-trade agreement with the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of Political Science Blayne Haggart wrote a piece recently published in the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/commentary\/article-canadas-free-trade-agreement-with-the-us-has-no-free-trade-nor-is-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Globe and Mail<\/a><\/em> about the nature of Canada&#8217;s trade relationship with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>He writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>Canada is at a crossroads. Despite a temporary reprieve from U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs, the threat remains. We must confront the elephant in the room: the status of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), which we are set to renegotiate next year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The most important fact of the tariff standoff is that it happened at all, in direct contravention of the spirit and letter of CUSMA. Mr. Trump\u2019s actions, sanctioned by his party, tell us the United States cannot be trusted to keep its word.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/commentary\/article-canadas-free-trade-agreement-with-the-us-has-no-free-trade-nor-is-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Globe and Mail<\/em>\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of Political Science Blayne Haggart wrote a piece recently published in the Globe and Mail about the nature of Canada&#8217;s trade relationship with the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,38],"tags":[522,739,42,486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99397"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99403,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99397\/revisions\/99403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}