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Hillwatch Bulletins
January 2007 The Green Stéphane Dion: Implications for Business New Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion made significant and detailed policy commitments in his leadership run. Hillwatch tells you what they are and their implications for business. June 2006 A Perspective on the U.S.-Canada Trade Relationship and the Softwood Lumber Case This bulletin walks us through how "managed trade" has worked over the last couple of decades and argues it was an inevitable outcome of the softwood lumber dispute all along. We think the way forward for the U.S.-Canada trade relationship is more "managed" agreements, not less.
October 2006 Fixing the Canadian Environmental Protection Act Hillwatch Principal recently appeared before a House of Commons Committee as an expert witness on how to improve the working of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act
Reforming Government Purchasing Canadian Apparel Magazine recently published an detailed opinion piece by Hillwatch Principal Michael Teeter on why the apparelel industry needs to take action now to reform Government Procurement
January 2006 Still Virtually Lawn Signs: Benchmarking Canadian Political Web Sites During the 2006 Election For this election, we updated our benchmarks of the Canadian political party web sites to evaluate their evolution from 18 months ago. Canadian party web sites deserve credit for significant improvements, however, they continue to be very much like lawn signs. They still inform, but don’t engage.
