Canada still sends 72.4% of their exports to the United States Other Countries is still only 12% of exports. The Feds have focused on India/China and/or other countries, but have had limited success
Canada continues to run trade deficits and has not been on the positive side in over a year and half. Trade deals need to be fair, but it is abundantly clear that is not happening
Canada gets a “C” grade on the Outward FDI Performance Index for 2011 and ranks 10th among the 16 comparator countries. Global outward FDI flows have rebounded sharply from the recent financial crisis and economic recession, when they fell by 9 per cent in 2008 and 33 per cent in 2009. Only Belgium and Switzerland receive “A” grades; six countries receive “D”s, and Ireland suffered an actual contraction in its 2011 outward FDI flows.
