As we sit in our locked-down building in Toronto because of the proximity of the G8/G20 protesters, I thought it would be the right time to highlight what is happening in the global financial markets – specifically on capital market and investment banking regulation. The Global Bank Tax In many countries, most notably the US [...]
Canadian interest in UK elections used to be the exclusive preserve of political junkies, anglophiles and the kind of people whose nights at the tavern were spent arguing about a return to the Red Ensign. Not exactly the mainstream, but enough in most years to justify CPAC providing tape delayed coverage between 2:00-4:30 am the night after the election. (By the way, I am partial to the union jack, but otherwise we’re talking about my people.)
Minister Baird’s announcement on April 29 of a $550 million loan to the State of Michigan to help ensure the construction of a new bridge is an incredibly important step in ensuring the problems at the Detroit Windsor Border Crossing are solved.
With news that the United Kingdom is going to be mired with a “Hung” (i.e., minority) parliament after yesterday’s general election, it makes me wonder whether we’ll see a return to first-past-the-post majority governments any time soon? In Canada, we have endured a minority parliament since 2004. Additional elections in 2006 and 2008 did nothing [...]
As many of you know, I’m about to move to the US to launch a new Government and Regulatory Affairs Practice in our FH New York office. As a result, I’ve been following US politics even more closely than normal these past few months and (like many Canadians) I have been watching the health care [...]
Simon Benson from the FH London office, recently wrote a blog plost on the format of the upcoming UK Election Debates. Very interesting read.
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