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Interprovincial Trade Liberalization Colliding With Provincial Regulatory Control

The $530B Interprovincial Trade System: why regulatory sovereignty constrains market integration. This Record quantifies economic exposure and isolates the procedural limits shaping internal trade reform.

C-70: FOREIGN INTERFERENCE ENFORCEMENT REGISTRY PHASE-IN

Auditing the C-70 foreign-influence registry: why intent-based enforcement collides with open research systems. This Record isolates the enforcement ceiling and stress-tests the compliance burden facing universities and trade-exposed sectors.

Withdrawing the Board of Peace: When U.S. diplomacy meets its own deterrence logic

Board of Peace invitation: why access hinges on unilateral diplomatic authority. This Record isolates how discretionary forum control alters alliance signalling and quantifies the downstream governance risk

THE CRITICAL MINERALS DECOUPLING: STATUTORY DIVESTMENT ORDERS

Statutory divestment orders: why Canada’s security screening collides with critical-minerals financing. This Record isolates the capital replacement constraint and stress-tests legal exposure created by forced exits.

THE EV TARIFF COLLISION: CHINESE SUBSIDIES VS. CANADIAN RETALIATION

Dissecting the Chinese EV surtax: why Canada’s affordability incentives collide with trade retaliation logic. This Record quantifies taxpayer exposure from iZEV rebates and isolates the revenue and price constraint created by the surtax design.

Mixed signals: The Canada - China posture cost

THE FACTS Canada adopted the Indo-Pacific Strategy as a formally approved whole-of-government horizontal initiative, establishing a single policy framework governing foreign policy, trade, defence, development, and security engagement across the region. The Strategy is administered through Global Affairs Canada as the coordinating department, with implementation authority distributed across participating departments

Inflating cross-border costs: uncertainty around North American supply chains

USMCA joint review: why a fixed renewal clock collides with election incentives. This Record quantifies Canada’s U.S. trade exposure and isolates the procedural constraint governing renewal risk.

Capping Physical Speech: Why Bill C-9 Stops at the Gate

Isolating the access offences in Bill C-9: why criminal liability now turns on where conduct occurs. This Record stress-tests how proximity, not harm, becomes the governing legal threshold.

Bill C-9 removes Attorney General consent

Dissecting the Combatting Hate Act: why Criminal Code changes meet provincial prosecution gatekeeping. This Record isolates the consent-removal mechanism, quantifies hate-crime volume, and stress-tests where enforcement clocks cannot be accelerated.

Bottlenecking building permits: the population squeeze

Stress-testing the $13.0B Build Canada Homes plan: why immigration targets outrun completions. This Record quantifies per-taxpayer exposure and isolates the permitting-and-trades constraint that funding cannot bypass.

When universal health care meets mental health expansion: why Bill C-201 stalls cost certainty

Stress-testing the mental health expansion under Bill C-201: why shifting existing private spending into public insurance adds billions without solving delivery bottlenecks.

Bottlenecking aircrews: the training cap behind Canada’s Global 6500 fleet

Stress-testing the RCAF Global 6500 acquisition: why mission expansion is colliding with training throughput. This Record isolates delivery sequencing, aircrew conversion limits, and per-taxpayer exposure embedded in Canada’s newest multi-role aircraft program.