Prenuptial agreement

The Canadian and the American Economies are very different. The Canadian Economy is mostly a mixed economy. According to Webster's dictionary, this means that some companies are owned by the government and other companies are not. The American Economy is mainly a market economy which means prices are based on competition among private businesses and not controlled by a government. Many people believe that Canada and the U.S should have a common economic system with little government involvement…

renegotiating the agreement would be a very long process that would cause great uncertainly in all countries involved, and create the risk of having one of the countries walk away all together (Beaulieu, 2017). Withdraw from…

The criticism of NAFTA has been prominent in the last eight years. It started with the campaigns run by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, when both criticized such an agreement and often referred to it as a failure. Most recently the president of the United States has also described it as such. However, there’s a very important narrative being erased from the conversation and that is how NAFTA impacted Mexico in a negative way. In a way that did not impact the other two nations. As Barack Obama…

A nation is an incredibly important aspect in anything that aspires to be its own entity. Developing a nation will help in creating a stronger, and well functioning society. In many cases, a nation needs help growing with the help of an other nation, like in the case of the Hockey Nation, and the Canadian nation. Without the other, these nations wouldn't have grown to be the nations we know today. Hockey needed the resources, the people, the money and the technology that Canada offered for its…

The two regions I will be talking about today will be Mexico and Costa Rica and the reason why is to show readers that their are a lot of differences in these countries such as how big they are, weather, & money wise. Costa Rica is located in the Central America and cover about 51,060 square kilometers of land and is the 131st largest nation in the world. While on the other hand Mexico is located in the North America and covers about 1,943,945 square kilometers of land making it the 14th largest…

the rules and procedures of international trade and markets, increasingly interconnecting more and more countries through the creation of regional treaties. In January 1994, Mexico, the United States and Canada signed the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the intention of establishing an intraregional trade-flow, creating social, political and economic opportunities for signatory countries (NAFTA). However, over the years NAFTAs signatory countries have demonstrated to be impacted…

their Canadian magazine editions earn advertising revenue from companies in Canada (p. 185). In general, US magazines are in a much better financial position. The Canadian government addressed the issue of unfair advantage by (a) passing Bill C-58. Advertising expenses of Canadian firms would not qualify for tax deductions unless those firms had advertised in Canadian-owned and Canadian-based publications (p. 185). (b) passing Customs Tariff Code 9958. This was a law passed against "split-run"…

In the last article, “The Granddaddy of All Canadian-U.S. Trade Disputes is About to Rear Its Ugly Head Again”, Drew Hasselback discusses the recent problems about trade disputes of softwood lumber products between the United States and Canada. The United States and Canada are considered as each other’s largest trading partner today. The dispute has been going on since 1982 and has gone through four iterations (Hasselback, 2014). Because of this trade dispute, Canadian exports of softwood lumber…

impact. Authors McBride and Aly analyze the argument for and against NAFTA and its impact on the economy’s involved: The United States, Mexico and Canada. NAFTA is an agreement between these 3 countries and it implementation meant the removal of most tariffs on traded products between the three countries. Furthermore, the agreement set rules for intellectual property and other trade elements between the 3 countries. The authors give multiple facts that focus on the possible pros and cons of…

I woke up in Los Mochis, anxious to get on with our day. The next stop was Mazatlan, which is on the Pacific Coast of Mexico across from the southernmost tip of the Baja California Peninsula. We were only planning to stay there long enough to get fuel and eat lunch. In the mid-1800’s, a large group of German immigrants transformed Mazatlan from a native fishing village into a thriving seaport. One of their continuing legacies is the local music which is called Banda and is a variation of…