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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

having just agreed to the G7 geopolitical statement he was walking a fine line www.elysee.fr/en/G7evian/2...

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Great interview with Steve Verheul with interesting detail on USMCA negotiations, and this important observation on what's coming in the "review": www.theglobeandmail.com/business/rob...

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

if parties treat an international agreement as "binding" it is, in practice, so I like @simonlester.com conclusion which gets at the real impasse in reforming WTO dispute settlement

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

there's a gem in this story. Canada did step up controls but purely for performative reasons--there was virtually no fentanyl crossing the border in January 2025. So removing the egregious tariffs on Canada will make no difference whatsoever to the fentanyl trade insidetrade.com/daily-news/h...

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

two things can be true. The speech was tone deaf and yet 1759 was arguably the beginning of a practice of accommodation, whatever the many bumps and detours along the way. I am recalling this footnote

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

hmmm General Robert Monckton (1726-1782) was in charge of Quebec after the death of Wolfe. In his proclamation to the Canadiens he said:

"Je déclare et fais savoir à tous par le presentes, Que les Canadiens peuvent s'en retourner dans leur paroises, prendre possession de leur propres terres, habitation et effets, faire leur recoltes, tenir de leur religion, sans recevoir le moindre empechement de la part des Anglais, qui ne sont pas venus pour ruiner et detruire les Canadians, mais pour leur faires gouter les douceurs d'un gouvernement triste et equitables, pour qu'eux de leur part, rendent les armes, prennent les serment de fidelité et demeures chez eux en repos."

22 Sept 1759
Sent from Québec by Monckton on Oct 8th and received in London in November 1759

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Carney readout of meeting with Danish PM

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Canada's "Conservatives" showing true colours. Even if these claims are true, Trump action is a breach of international law and should be condemned. Supporting such lawlessness is hardly conservative

At the crossroads of terrorism, narco-trafficking, and brutal dictatorship sits Nicolás Maduro. A criminal regime masquerading as a government. The news of the arrest by U.S. is welcomed and long overdue for the people of Venezuela.

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

clearly there is still no consensus on consensus. Will a way forward on #WTO decision-making be found by MC14? Not holding my breath @coppetainpu.bsky.social

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I get that dunking on Carney is satisfying, but maybe look at the preceding sentences in the story for context;

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

and it seems that the IMF agrees that Canada faces lower tariffs than anywhere else… except our trade with the US is much more significant so the burden of those lower tariffs is greater

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

here's what that link goes to for me

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

there has never been certainty, especially on softwood lumber and Senator Hilary Clinton complained about dairy a while back. And Dems are not exactly the party of free trade. But we are stuck here in North America so we always have to negotiate

as candidates in 2008 Clinton and Obama talked about renegotiating NAFTA

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Toronto Globe and Mail today. Uncertainty is worse than tariffs

Trump with on/off switch for trade talks. Other leaders say I wish he'd stop doing that

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

how times have changed. G7 Kananaskis chair's summary comments on trade and climate change, 2002 1/4

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

spring in Ontario. Woods beside our local rail-to-trail bike ride are full of trilliums. No wonder it's the provincial flower.

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

should Canada offer to advance the review of USMCA scheduled for 2026? No, says Steve Verheul, Canada's chief negotiator. He tells POLITICO

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

EU intervention critical of US and China observing "This is why the European Union is a strong advocate for the WTO to address the interplay between trade and industrial policy. Taking this topic forward is more pressing than ever." correct. India please note www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/...

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

is Trudeau working to rally support for the next round of demands from Trump? www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I like Jean Chretien's advice:

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

question in piece about whether the G7 should meet if Trump decides multilateral meetings are not worth his team. Former PM Chretien implicitly answered that question in an article he published for his 91st birthday on the weekend /fin

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

LeBlanc would have been a strong candidate for Liberal Leader, but this is a good call for the country

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Canadian response cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu...

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

But lovers of Canadian dairy policy need not fret: Supply Management lives and the impulse behind the bill has not gone way. Here is the text that is now dead /fin

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

@alanbeattie.bsky.social tell us what you really think of Katherine Tai... "vibes-based trade policy" is a great line, and as good an explanation as any for the dumb Nippon Steel decision www.ft.com/content/86db...

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

kudos to @iisd.bsky.social @alicetipping.bsky.social one of the first web pages I've noticed with a Bluesky link, and it comes first www.iisd.org/articles/dee...

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

let's India off too lightly on subsidies, as below. In fact India is virtually alone the misleadingly labelled "public stockholding issue" as @coppetainpu.bsky.social reports here tradebetablog.wordpress.com/2024/02/25/s...

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

great post about an influential PM. I quoted his lack of understanding of the EU as the epigraph to my book on the Farm Wars of the 1980s

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

@jburnmurdoch.bsky.social I am confused by this chart--seems to show higher concentrations in Ontario and Ile-de-France than UK. What am I misunderstanding?

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

@alanbeattie.bsky.social takes a different view this week (well most weeks) www.ft.com/content/529e...

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Kimberley Process on Conflict Diamonds is an under the radar part of the sanctions process, one which isn't working well www.canada.ca/en/global-af...

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

@simonlester.com @devonwhittle.bsky.social interesting bit in senior officials report on General Review of CPTPP. A secretariat would a huge innovation also wondering about the transparency bit in the statement www.international.gc.ca/trade-commer...

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

@financialtimes.com I hope you will add a Bluesky option to this widget that appears on every FT page

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

fair, though wasn't WTO as a whole meant to be an ongoing project? More relevant is Art 20 AoA, which ran aground. @coppetainpu.bsky.social

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

seems like a low number but I confess that I rarely came here until lots of other people did. Still more to see (and more people following me) on the Other Place

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Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

uh oh. The bots are already clouding the skies here

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