Strategies for post-recession trade success

Published March 10, 2010

Trade is a remarkably tough business to succeed at even in the best of times. And things are about to get tougher.

As a country, we have taken comfort in being sheltered by Canada–US trade integration without recognizing that this does not give us immunity from larger economic dynamics. And we have counted on trade promotion and trade agreements to expand trade without doing enough to build what...