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Given the current uncertainty in the Canada–United States relationship, Canada has doubled down on building new trade partnerships and expanding existing ones. From March 2025 to March 2026, Prime Minister Mark Carney has made 26 trips abroad and has secured four binding trade deals. While trade diversification is a strategic response to reduce Canada’s dependence on the U. S market, this article argues that the Canada and U. S. trade relationship is likely impossible to replicate based on two factors: economic size and geographic distance. Canada and the United States have one of the world’s closest international relationships, one that has been historically built on trust, cooperation, and shared economic and security interests. The United States is Canada’s largest trading partner, Canada is the second largest trading partner to the United States.

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A major Ontario condo construction lender says it won’t relax its loan criteria for developers despite a sharp drop in projects and industry calls for more support. In the fourth year of the real estate downturn, developers have been shelving or postponing condo projects because mom-and-pop investors are no longer interested in buying preconstruction units. Individual investors used to account for the vast majority of preconstruction condo purchases in the Toronto region. The lack of investors means that developers cannot sell the amount of units required to qualify for construction financing. Lenders typically require 70 per cent of a project’s units be sold before they will provide the developer with financing to launch construction. “The 70 per cent remains a good metric,” said Kevin VanKampen, head of business banking with Meridian Credit Union, the province’s largest credit union that has been providing condo developers with loans for at least two decades. With condo prices falling, Mr.

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