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Buy America Exposes Canada’s Missteps

Canadian protectionism is to blame for the United States ramping up Buy America.
Buy America Exposes Canada’s Missteps
A Toronto Transit Commission streetcar produced by Bombardier in a file photo. Bombardier is laying off 550 employees from its Thunder Bay operation as rail contracts come to an end. The company is also blaming U.S. Buy America provisions for the need to relocate operations south of the border. The Canadian Press//Doug Ives
Rahul Vaidyanath
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Canadian protectionism is to blame for the United States ramping up Buy America, and the federal government missed its chance to head it off by adopting the wrong NAFTA renegotiation strategy, says Carleton University business professor Ian Lee.
Buy America—and Buy American—are not new. The two different legislations—Buy America(n)—have been around for decades. The former, a provision of a 1982 act, focuses on U.S. federal transportation infrastructure procurement, while the latter, enacted in 1933, applies to all U.S. federal government agency purchases of goods.
Rahul Vaidyanath
Rahul Vaidyanath
Journalist
Rahul Vaidyanath is a journalist with The Epoch Times in Ottawa. His areas of expertise include the economy, financial markets, China, and national defence and security. He has worked for the Bank of Canada, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., and investment banks in Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles.
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