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Canada and the U.S. should work together to out-compete the world, Ambassador Kirsten Hillman said.
As Congress nears the finish line on a bipartisan infrastructure bill that would bring $550 billion in new spending, the
U.S.’s neighbor to the north understands the impulse to enact procurement policies that favor domestic firms.
But “Buy American” provisions locking
Canadian suppliers out of the market or making it more difficult for them to integrate with American bidders could actually be counterproductive, said
Kirsten Hillman,
United States.
“What we’re trying to express to the administration, to members of Congress, is that when you apply that policy to the Canada-U.S. trade relationship, you actually aren’t creating jobs; you are actually putting U.S. companies and jobs at risk because these supply chains are so deeply integrated,” Ms. Hillman said.
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