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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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Trans-Pacific Partnership hides significant health costs, according to two new studies
OTTAWA – As Canada prepares to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in New Zealand this week, two new studies from the Canadian Centre for Policy…
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TPP Will Cost Canada 58,000 Jobs, Won’t Grow Economy
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Ratification de l’AÉCG – plus facile à dire qu’à faire
La majorité des Canadiennes et Canadiens n’ont jamais appuyé l’orientation néoconservatrice agressive de l’ancien premier ministre Stephen Harper. Lors des élections fédérales d’octobre dernier, ils…
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Ratifying CETA – Easier Said than Done
This commentary is available in French. The majority of Canadians never supported former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s aggressive brand of neoconservativism. In the October election,…
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The TPP and the cost of drugs
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Five reasons to defend supply management from the TPP
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Trans-Pacific Partnership a big win for corporate interests
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Should Canada be completing a trade deal in the middle of an election?
The Obama administration is pulling out all the stops to wrap up the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations this week. Trade ministers, including Canada’s Ed Fast,…
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What’s the big deal? The high stakes of TPP
On September 29, Dairy farmers from eastern Ontario took their tractors to protest on Parliament Hill.
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Canadian corporations abuse investment treaties, bully governments into environmental backtrack: study
Canadian investors have exploited a controversial mechanism in international investment treaties to challenge public interest regulations in 24 different countries, according to a study released…
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A Losing Proposition
The Failure of Canadian ISDS Policy at Home and Abroad Download 1.48 MB 62 pages This report documents the 55 known cases of Canadian investors…
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TPP Shakedown in Maui
A shakedown is defined as extortion by means of force, threats, or intimidation. That’s a pretty accurate description of what’s now happening in Hawaii to…
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