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Expert research on international trade and investment treaties and globalization
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CETA: Why the big rush to ratify?
Germans protest CETA in November 2016 (Photo by Pay Numrich / Campact).
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CETA to be signed unchanged, but less likely to be ratified after Wallonian resistance
An advertisement for Wallonia at the Brussels airport.
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Wallonia’s inspiring stand on CETA
Today the regional government of Wallonia in Belgium rebuffed Canada’s last-minute efforts to salvage a deeply flawed and increasingly unpopular transatlantic free trade agreement. By…
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Flimsy CETA declaration leaves public services, water policy vulnerable in Canada-EU deal
After a year of large public demonstrations against Canada-EU free trade, which have—refreshingly—given some European politicians cold feet, the Canadian government and European Commission have…
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Why progressives oppose Canada-EU trade deal
Photo credit: Olaf Brostowski, Flickr Creative Commons Seven years after negotiations began on the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), the Trudeau government is…
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Making Sense of CETA (2016)
Download 3.38 MB 80 pages This follow-up to the 2014 report, Making Sense of CETA, assesses the final text of the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and…
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Canada-EU trade deal will result in job losses, lower wages, and worse inequality
In Europe this weekend over 100,000 people are expected to protest the proposed Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). They are the latest in a series…
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CETA investment reforms come up short
New regulations apply the same flawed and biased investor protection rules that exist under the current ISDS regime Earlier this year, International Trade Minister Chrystia…
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TPP poses unnecessary risks to Canada’s postal services: report
Ottawa—A new assessment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership by two legal experts finds that the trade agreement’s provisions related to mail delivery and courier services pose…
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Signed, Sealed and Delivered?
The TPP and Canada’s public postal service Download 458.72 KB 16 pages This study assesses the provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) related to mail…
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Trans-Pacific Partnership undermines Canada’s copyright balance, Internet users: study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Ottawa—A new study by one of Canada’s leading copyright experts finds that the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s proposed intellectual property provisions would…
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The trouble with the TPP’s copyright rules
Download 460.89 KB18 pages This study discusses how the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s intellectual property provisions would dramatically alter the balance between the interests of copyright owners…
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