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Trade and Investment Research Project
Expert research on international trade and investment treaties and globalization
The Trade and Investment Research Project (TIRP) is an independently funded project administered by the CCPA. TIRP pools the trade policy research resources and expertise of Canadian non-governmental organizations from a variety of sectors. It produces expert research on a wide range of important trade and investment policy issues.
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Trump’s war on Canadian cultural policy
Why the Online News Act and Online Streaming Act are in the crosshairs of the CUSMA review
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Digital divergence splits another WTO ministerial
As the international moratorium on taxing digital trade lapses, Canada and others seek to make it permanent through a controversial agreement
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Is the U.S. coming for Canada’s dairy supply management?
Trade reforms pushed by U.S. producers and large retailers in the CUSMA review could further compromise domestic industry
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World Trade Organization strikes down climate industrial strategy again
Long-standing conflict between trade disciplines and economic support measures plague global green new deals
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Masters in our own house: Foreign ownership and investment trends in Canada
How much does foreign capital own in the Canadian economy—and how much Canadian capital do we export abroad?
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Where is the Mexican right wing?
Book Review: The Right Doesn’t exist (But there it is) by Alex González Ormerod
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U.S. Supreme Court complicates—but does not end—Trump’s trade war
Impacts on Canada, Mexico and the CUSMA review
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Time for a wartime industrial strategy in Canada
A national industrial policy could unite Canada in the face of growing external threats from the Unites States
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Canada’s new UAE trade and investment deal is bad news
Canada is acting as a middleman, not a middle power—serving as a conduit for profits from human rights abuses and fossil fuels
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Canada must strengthen its China EV deal to protect autoworkers
Canada can’t import its way to net-zero, or to a better trading model. It needs to build here at home.
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Canada resets relations with China
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…
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A new pipeline is the wrong response to the U.S. takeover of Venezuela
Immediately after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was apprehended by United States President Trump, the Globe and Mail editorial board quickly pivoted from condemning the action…
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