Canada Can Confront US Tariffs by Liberating Innovators

By Richard Gold

Published January 22nd, 2025

Our Chief Policy and Partnerships Officer, Richard Gold, argues that if Trump goes ahead with his tariffs, Canada should use intellectual property as a weapon against the threat to national economic security – a bold step that would allow Canada to exploit its wealth of academic knowledge to produce lower-cost medicines and ramp up AI-assisted drug discovery.

This piece first appeared in The Globe and Mail and is also available for free on the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) website – read it here.

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