John Calvert is an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Health Science at Simon Fraser University, and a research associate with the CCPA’s BC Office. The attached is the text of his presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Trade, during hearings into the Trans-Pacific Partnership. His comments deal mainly with the potential implications for population health and health policy.
About the author
John Calvert is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University and a research associate with the CCPA’s BC Office. Dr. Calvert is the author of Liquid Gold: Energy Privatization in British Columbia, a book that challenges the former BC Liberal government’s private power agenda. He also worked for the Crown Corporations Secretariat which oversaw BC Hydro during the 1990s and was also a member of the 2005 BC Hydro Provincial Integrated Electricity Planning Committee.