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Jack Mintz: How do we stop business and capital from heading south?

Continued trade uncertainty is doing our economy no favours

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Alarm bells went off when KPMG reported last week that 42 per cent of 275 manufacturers it surveyed have already abandoned Canada or have shifted or plan to shift production to the United States. Statistics Canada tells a similar story, with manufacturing GDP falling by 4.1 per cent, with a net loss of 60,000 jobs, since U.S. President Donald Trump began his second term.

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