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Investing abroad makes home-country companies more efficient, thereby enabling those companies to grow faster than they otherwise would.


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Canadian shoppers have long suffered from higher prices on some consumer goods, relative to other countries, especially the United States.


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If Canadians need a reason to support the just-announced free trade agreement with South Korea, here are a few hundred million: every year, Canadians pay hundreds of millions of dollars in hidden taxes on imported automobiles and auto-related products. At least some of those hidden taxes are in the form of tariffs applied to imports from South Korea.


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There are few Canadians who understand agricultural supply management and how it affects their daily lives, which is a major reason why this outdated system has survived. It’s receiving greater scrutiny now, though, because it’s impeding trade agreements.