Category Archives: National Security
NATO, Defense and Canadian Well-Being
This is an op-ed (14 February 2024) that explains how Canada’s poor record in meeting NATO defense expenditure obligations – and other commitments to its allies – weakens the country’s geopolitical influence and its ability to resolve economic, commercial and trade matters, ultimately impacting on the well-being of Canadians generally. It’s a call for changes… Read More »
WTO – Challenges in the Multilateral Trading Order
Historic Shifts in Global Trade
Critical Trade Issues for Critical Minerals
In this paper published by the MacDonald Laurier Institute, I say Canada’s Export Control List should be enlarged to include critical minerals, which is not the case now. Second, I say that export controls are a vital strategic tool and that any Canadian critical minerals policy must include export controls as a major component of… Read More »
Sanctions in International Trade
China’s Security Challenge
This is a commentary published by The Hill Times on 10 December 2020. It deals with resources Canada can employ to confront the security risk posed by Huawei and other Chinese enterprizes seeking to invest in Canada, most of which are either State owned and controlled or under the control or influence of the Chinese… Read More »
Huawei & Canadian National Security
Sanctions & Embargoes Update
Neighbourly relations with the U.S. are over
GLOBE & MAIL 31 May 2018 LAWRENCE L. HERMAN © 2018 Former Canadian diplomat, practices international trade law at Herman & Associates and is a Senior Fellow of the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto. The Trump administration’s announcement of punitive tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum yesterday means we’re into a full-blown economic and… Read More »