Thursday, March 30, 2017

Fwd: Premier's Statement on Proposed Buy American Legislation in New York State

Nationalism and protectionism spreading its ugly tentacles.


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Statement

Premier's Statement on Proposed Buy American Legislation in New York State

March 30, 2017

Premier Kathleen Wynne released the following statement regarding Buy American provisions in New York State's budget, which its Legislature is expected to vote on tomorrow:

"Ontario's economic success is linked directly to our strong business relationships with the U.S. But this isn't just a competitive advantage for our province. Our partnership underpins the competitiveness of this entire region. Both Ontario and New York State benefit enormously from a strong and integrated partnership that supports good jobs on both sides of the border. I am confident New York State's lawmakers will carefully consider the state's top export partner when deliberating on Buy American provisions in the budget.

With that in mind, our government stepped up efforts this month to ensure New York State's political leaders understand these risks and consider our broader partnership. Last week, Michael Chan, Minister of International Trade, and Brad Duguid, Minister of Economic Development and Growth, travelled to Albany to actively seek an exemption for Canadian businesses from these Buy American provisions and they have continued to advocate on behalf of Ontario workers and businesses. Monique Smith, Ontario's Representative in Washington, D.C., has consistently promoted Ontario's integrated relationship across the U.S.  She has also travelled to Albany and has been actively engaged with state legislators over the past several months to ensure that Ontario's interests are well understood. We have also enlisted the support of experts in the New York State budget process to ensure our position was heard.

We are continuing to work closely with our partners in the federal and Québec governments to present a united front and ensure that Canada is top of mind to New York State legislators this week. International trade expert John Gero will now act as special advisor on trade to Ontario. Mr. Gero will report to the Minister of International Trade, Michael Chan, and will provide strategic advice and expertise to the Premier, the Secretary of the Cabinet and the broader Ontario government to advance Ontario's trade relationship with the U.S. Mr. Gero was previously Canada's ambassador to the World Trade Organization and chair of the General Council, the WTO's highest-level decision making body.

I am encouraged by the reception Ontario received in New York State. Political leaders have demonstrated a clear understanding of our regions' close linkages and are keenly aware of how much our partnership contributes to each of our economies.

While we eagerly await Friday's outcome, I am committed to supporting Ontario workers and businesses by working to maintain and enhance our province's strong and balanced economic relationship with our partners across the U.S.

Free trade creates good jobs for the people of Ontario, and as Premier I am working to create opportunity and security for the people of our province. I will stand up on their behalf every time.

I continue to work directly with the 27 governors for whom Ontario is a top first or second customer, including reaffirming our strong long-term partnership with Michigan with a visit recently. I look forward to fostering more connections with my state-level partners, including at the National Governors Association meeting in Rhode Island in July. 

In Ontario, key cabinet ministers and I continue to engage with workers and businesses via roundtables on key issues like agriculture, manufacturing, automotive and NAFTA. We will also host the Southeastern United States - Canadian Provinces Alliance (SEUS-CP) in Toronto in June.  

We will continue to advocate for free trade and open, fair and competitive access to government contracts. And we will consider all reasonable options to protect Ontario jobs in the face of Buy American policies or legislation."

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Fwd: News Alert: Trump administration approves Keystone XL pipeline, reversing Obama administration position

Canadian oil sector will be happy. 
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The decision caps a years-long fight between environmental groups and energy industry advocates over the pipeline's fate that became a proxy battle over global warming. It marks one of the biggest steps taken to date by the Trump administration to prioritize economic development over environmental concerns. It wasn't immediately clear what, if anything, had changed since the State Department reached the opposite conclusion two years ago. President Trump is expected to discuss the pipeline this morning. The 1,700-mile pipeline, as envisioned, would carry oil from tar sands in Alberta, Canada, to refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast, passing through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma.
 
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Trump administration approves Keystone XL pipeline, reversing Obama administration position
The decision caps a years-long fight between environmental groups and energy industry advocates over the pipeline's fate that became a proxy battle over global warming. It marks one of the biggest steps taken to date by the Trump administration to prioritize economic development over environmental concerns. It wasn't immediately clear what, if anything, had changed since the State Department reached the opposite conclusion two years ago. President Trump is expected to discuss the pipeline this morning. The 1,700-mile pipeline, as envisioned, would carry oil from tar sands in Alberta, Canada, to refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast, passing through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma.
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Fwd: Fact Checker: President Trump's false claims about Obamacare, wiretapping and ... his own false claims

In the past 7 days the Liar in Chief has made SEVENTY public claims that can be proven to be either false or misleading
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President Trump's false claims about Obamacare, wiretapping and … his own false claims   President Trump criticized fact-checkers at a speech this week: "If it's off by one-hundredth of a percent, I end up getting Pinocchios." But we beg to differ. Under our standards, being off by 100th of a percentage point would likely result in …
 
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President Trump's false claims about Obamacare, wiretapping and … his own false claims  

President Trump criticized fact-checkers at a speech this week: "If it's off by one-hundredth of a percent, I end up getting Pinocchios."

But we beg to differ. Under our standards, being off by 100th of a percentage point would likely result in a Geppetto Checkmark. The reason Trump has so many Four-Pinocchio ratings is that many of his claims lack evidence or a factual basis.

Take this week, for example. In the past seven days, we logged 70 false or misleading claims from Trump in our 100 Days of Trump Claims tracker.

Here's a look at unsupported claims Trump made this week about wiretapping, Obamacare and … even his own falsehoods.

On Monday, the House Intelligence Committee grilled FBI Director James Comey about Trump's claims that former president Barack Obama had ordered wiretaps in the Trump Tower. Comey firmly rejected Trump's allegations.

Then something odd happened: The president live-tweeted his responses during the testimony, and committee members asked Comey about Trump's tweets in real time. But the tweets were misleading, inaccurate or simply false — and Comey's responses refuted each tweet. We rounded up all the claims, of Trump's terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad Twitter day.

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Onto Obamacare. While making his case for the GOP replacement for the Affordable Care Act, Trump repeatedly used his favorite — and inaccurate — talking points. We looked at a series of them, and three are below. See the full roundup here.

"They also want people to know that Obamacare is dead; it's a dead health-care plan. It's not even a health-care plan, frankly."

This is false. Credible estimates suggest the health-care law boosted the number of people with health insurance by 20 million. The Congressional Budget Office said the individual market would be stable in most markets at least for the next 10 years under the Affordable Care Act.

We have no idea what he's referring to, but it may be the "death spiral," which critics say is inevitable for the health-care law. Of course, Republicans are responsible for some of the increased premiums and lack of sign-ups in state exchanges.

For example, Republican lawmakers restricted a key payment mechanism called "risk corridors," which was intended to help stabilize premiums and protect insurance companies from losses in the initial three years of the law. And within his first week in office, Trump pulled back federally sponsored advertising encouraging people to sign up for health exchanges during the open enrollment period.

"I was in Tennessee — I was just telling the folks — and half of the state has no insurance company, and the other half is going to lose the insurance company."

This is false. Tennessee is divided into eight geographic areas that insurers use to set their rates. All eight rating areas have at least one insurance carrier, and three of them have two carriers. FactCheck.org found "it is possible that some parts of the state will be without marketplace coverage next year." But that's not the same as Trump claiming half the state has no insurance company.

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"Many of our best and brightest are leaving the medical profession entirely because of Obamacare."

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Recent data from the Association of American Medical Colleges shows physicians are actually retiring two years later. The group said there is "no evidence of a declining interest in medicine since the ACA took effect. Applications to medical school are at an all-time high."

Time Magazine interviewed Trump about his falsehoods this week. But during the interview, he repeated a bunch of falsehoods. Here are four claims. View the full roundup here.

  • "Huma and Anthony, you know, what I tweeted about that whole deal, and then it turned out he had it, all of Hillary's email on his thing." — No. Weiner did not have all of Clinton's emails on his laptop. The FBI ultimately concluded none of the emails added new information to the investigation into Clinton's private server.
  • "NATO, obsolete, because it doesn't cover terrorism." — False. NATO has been involved in counterterrorism since 1980, and especially since the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.
  • "They register incorrectly, and/or illegally. And they then vote. You have tremendous numbers of people." No. There are instances of people illegally voting, but they are rare.
  • Q: "The claim that Muslims celebrated 9/11 in New Jersey…"
    Trump: "Well if you look at the reporter, he wrote the story in The Washington Post." — This is a thoroughly debunked Four-Pinocchio claim. There's no evidence that thousands of Muslims cheered, and the Post story he cites does not support his claim at all.

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