Stuart Trew
Stuart serves as director of the CCPA’s Trade and Investment Research Project (TIRP), which pools the expertise of academic, labour and non-governmental organization researchers to understand the impacts of trade and investment treaties and policy on the Canadian economy, public services, human rights and international relations. He joined the CCPA in 2014 as editor of the Monitor magazine. Stuart has a BA in journalism and political science and a MA in political economy from Carleton University. He was previously a trade researcher and campaigner with the Council of Canadians. In 2009, he co-founded the Trade Justice Network, which continues to bring together labour, environmental, student, human rights and social justice groups to contest neoliberal trade rules and propose progressive alternatives.

Why the Online News Act and Online Streaming Act are in the crosshairs of the CUSMA review

Alberta’s promised two-tier transition comes with unacknowledged threats from trade and investment agreements.

Impacts on Canada, Mexico and the CUSMA review

Prime Minister Carney can be pleased with the results of his first official visit to China. Through a temporary trade truce, and a list of…

There goes the neighbourhood. I’m talking about the Western Hemisphere, America’s “backyard” in the now fully operational Donroe Doctrine. Canada-U.S. relations, a constant preoccupation of…

Algoma Steel’s announcement that it will lay off more than 1,000 workers in Sault Ste Marie is just the latest in a string of bad…

“Build big things” has become a mantra of the current federal government. Partly in an effort to lessen our economic vulnerability to U.S. shocks, Prime…

Submission from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives to the Government of Canada consultation on the mandated review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA)

As the Trumpocalypse lays waste to what was left of the rules-based international trading order, countries are under pressure to diversify their trade relationships. In…

When parliament comes back into session on September 15, the newly elected federal government is going to try to move swiftly to pass its legislative…

International political discourse in 2025 has been haunted by the spectre of Donald Trump and his brute force reshaping of global trade relationships to the…

Canadian companies, with the approval of the Canadian government, are supplying military equipment for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
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