Trade and Investment Research Project Reports & Studies

Welcome to our complete catalogue of reports and studies (which includes backgrounders, policy briefs, full-length research reports and books). 

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Énergie Saguenay, Climate Action and Investment Arbitration

by Scott Sinclair
December 8, 2023 | National Office

Evaluating social procurement strategies under Canada’s trade commitments

by Noah Fry
September 8, 2023 | National Office

A briefing paper from the Trade and Investment Research Project

by Stuart Trew, Kyla Tienhaara
June 28, 2023 | National Office

Evaluating the costs and benefits of participation in this U.S.-led and U.S.-designed project.

by Stuart Trew, Laura Macdonald
May 11, 2023 | National Office

Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanisms are discredited. No new trade deal should include them.

by Stuart Trew
March 3, 2023 | National Office

Investor rights in the expired North American Free Trade Agreement continue to undermine democratic decision-making and climate policy in Mexico, Canada, and the United States.

by Stuart Trew, Manuel Pérez-Rocha, Karen Hansen-Kuhn
February 7, 2023 | National Office

How Canadian companies use trade and investment agreements to bully foreign governments for billions

by Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood
May 19, 2022 | National Office

by Scott Sinclair
April 15, 2021 | National Office

Early Impacts of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement

by Scott Sinclair, Stuart Trew
October 1, 2019 | National Office

by Scott Sinclair, Stuart Trew
September 6, 2019 | National Office

A Trade Agenda for People and Planet

edited by Scott Sinclair, Manuel Pérez-Rocha, Ethan Earle
July 9, 2019 | National Office

How "good regulatory practices" in trade agreements erode protections for the environment, public health, workers and consumers

by Stuart Trew
May 22, 2019 | National Office

The use and abuse of investor-state dispute settlement by Canadian investors abroad

by Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood, Ben Smith
April 30, 2019 | National Office

Was it worth it?

by Scott Sinclair
October 23, 2018 | National Office

North American Investor-State Disputes to January 2018

by Scott Sinclair
January 16, 2018 | National Office

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