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Toxic legacy
A record-breaking trade lawsuit against Canada confirms the dire threat that investor-state dispute settlement poses to bold climate action
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How Biden’s digital trade rethink adds pressure to re-renegotiate NAFTA
We should use the six-year renewal of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement to strip out Trump-era language benefiting big tech oligarchs. Then keep pushing.
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Canada at risk of huge lawsuits if U.K. accession to pacific trade deal not amended, warn civil society organizations and academics
Ottawa and London—Canada faces “huge financial risk” of lawsuits from British fossil fuel companies if the United Kingdom joins the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for…
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Canada at risk of lawsuits if U.K. accession to pacific trade deal not amended
Civil society organizations and academics are warning about investor-state dispute settlement
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Canada and the EU should divest from CETA’s dangerous investment court system
It’s time to treat the novel investor-state dispute settlement system like a stranded asset
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Canada has waited long enough to tax the tech giants
Canada’s new Digital Services Tax (DST) will draw trade flack, but that’s no reason not to move ahead with it.
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Canada’s double-standard in economic relations with Africa
The Canada-Africa Economic Cooperation Strategy is an opportunity to cancel treaties that can hamper sustainable development and human rights
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Canada’s options for intervening in the Keystone XL CUSMA lawsuit
TC Energy is trying to use NAFTA provisions to punish the US government for cancelling Keystone XL. Canada should intervene against the fossil fuel company.
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Canada and the U.S. are using free trade rules to attack Mexican food sovereignty
Ongoing USMCA case will test the agreement’s bias in favour of biotech companies and genetically modified foods
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Canada’s proposed supply chain law is weak on human and environmental rights
The business community needs to get behind a stronger supply chain due diligence law
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U.K. membership in Pacific trade deal threatens Canadian climate action
Canada should join Australia and New Zealand in neutralizing lopsided corporate protections in CPTPP
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