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Blair Redlin
Blair Redlin is a researcher with the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), whose areas of specialization include transportation policy, P3s, infrastructure, municipal affairs and policy, labour policy and employment standards, job creation strategies and trade.
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Marchander la démocratie
En quoi les règles de protection des investisseurs de l’AÉCG menacent-elles le bien public au Canada et dans L’Union Européenne? Attachments Resumé: Marchander la démocratie
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Trading Away Democracy
How CETA’s Investor Protection Rules Threaten the Public Good in Canada and the EU Download 877.87 KB20 pages This study warns that controversial investor protection…
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Corporate rights under serious scrutiny in Europe. Canada fast asleep.
On Feb. 3rd, I made a presentation in Vancouver to the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade on the proposed Canada/E.U. trade deal…
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Big municipal tax shift a great deal for business
Municipal spending and municipal taxes are amongst the lowest in Canada. KPMG says businesses in Vancouver have the lowest business taxes amongst 41 cities they studied. So how come the pressure keeps coming to shift property taxes away from business and on to residential taxpayers?
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B.C. Government: Truest of the Trade True Believers
Alone amongst provinces, only B.C. failed to exempt even a single municipality or provincial agency from the recent Canada/U.S. Procurement Agreement.
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Corporations are people too
Advocates of democratic electoral reform are really out of step. Ideas like proportional representation and advertising spending limits are so retro, so 2004. The fashionable…
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“Buy American” bogeyman: Instead of fretting about US purchasing policies, we should focus on stimulating Canada’s economy and local communities
Who knew? It turns out the biggest threat to the Canadian economy and jobs is not collapsed global financial institutions, weak markets, lack of innovation…
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High Risk
An Analysis of the Proposed Public-Private Partnership for the Richmond/Airport-Vancouver Rapid Transit Project Download 301.18 KB30 pages
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