3 20 things to watch:
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Canada’s Pandemic Pall As the COVID-19 pandemic spread, Canada was already experiencing negative growth in the fourth quarter of 2019. The federal public health guidance led provincial governments to impose stay-at-home restrictions and bans on business activity that pushed the economy into recession, even as the Trudeau government secured parliamentary approval for the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) that replaced NAFTA. Canada’s healthcare system has encouraged Canadians to come forward for testing, but high utilization rates of hospital bed capacity (generally above 92 percent) mean that the system is vulnerable if there is a surge in new cases. Reviving the Canadian economy will be a challenge, requiring provincial premiers and the prime minister to cooperate across party lines. Meanwhile, whatever the United States does—or does not do—will be key to future Canadian economic prospects.
Featured Experts:
www.wilsoncenter.org/canada
Chris Sands, Director, Canada Institute
canada@wilsoncenter.org
Alan D. Bersin, Global Fellow; Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Chief Diplomatic Officer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Policy 7
Laurie Trautman, Global Fellow; Director, Border Policy Research Institute, Western Washington University
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