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  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    For Canada’s autoworkers, CETA has not lived up to its billing

    Five years ago, Canada’s free trade pact with Europe came into force. Well, some of it did at least.

    Five years ago, Canada’s free trade pact with Europe came into force. Well, some of it did at least.

  • What’s Wrong With CETA? Plenty.

    Trade deal with Europe threatens Canada’s municipalities The proposed Canada-Europe Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is generating serious questions and concerns from local governments across Canada. A sweeping trade and investment deal, CETA is currently in its tenth round of negotiations, and the Canadian government believes it could…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    PBO lukewarm on CETA in new impact assessment

    A new study from the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer confirms the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) offers only modest benefits for Canada and may come with significant costs.The PBO impact assessment acknowledges its limitations. Firstly, if you’re concerned about labour, the environment, domestic sovereignty, government procurement,…

  • CETA’s Harmful Constraints on Ontario

    Trade deal with Europe threatens many costly ill-effects The governments of Canada and the European Union (EU) are in the final stages of negotiating a sweeping agreement that would impose unprecedented constraints on federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal governments’ capacity to put public interests ahead of corporate interests. The agreement…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    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

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Ten questions about the CETA

    After weeks of rumours, it’s now official: the CETA talks have produced an “agreement-in-principle”. This proposed treaty is about far more than simply trade.  It is a constitutional-style document that affects patent protection for drugs, foreign investor rights, local government purchasing, public interest regulation and many other matters that are…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Fast Facts: The CETA and Nova Scotia

    Oversold benefits, untold costs After close consideration of the costs and benefits, our new report on the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) concludes that the agreement’s benefits for Nova Scotia are being oversold, while its costs and consequences are minimized or even ignored. The only official Canadian government report about…

  • Manitoba Government Ignores Evidence For Supervised Consumption Sites

    For years, Manitoba’s network of community organizations and public health and harm reduction experts have made the case for the introduction of supervised consumption sites in Manitoba. There are evidence-based models of care that will work for Manitoba. In February of 2022, the Manitoba Harm Reduction Network issued a comprehensive…

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    Site C’s radical makeover: What the ‘L’ is going on at problem-plagued dam construction project where costs keep piling up and completion remains years away?

    BC Hydro knew 30 years before it started building the Site C dam that its chosen location for the most expensive publicly funded infrastructure project in British Columbia’s history had big problems.  In fact, by the 1980s, BC Hydro had done tests showing that the ground at Site C had…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Will CETA Help Tories…Or Hurt Them?

    With Prime Minister Harper making the diplomatic rounds in Europe, media interest has heightened this week regarding the potential free trade agreement which his government is trying to negotiate with the European Union. Several deadlines to reach that deal have come and gone, but the Conservatives are still heavily committed…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Taking Stock of CETA

    Early Impacts of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Download 209.56 KB22 pages The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the EU was provisionally implemented on September 21, 2017, but won’t come fully into force until all European member states choose to ratify the deal. A…

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    A Big Fracking Mess: As Site C dam construction bogs down in geotechnical problems, thousands of earthquakes triggered by fracking operations occur nearby

    Earthquakes triggered by natural gas industry fracking operations near BC Hydro’s troubled Site C dam construction project are far greater in number than previously thought, raising troubling questions about whether they are adding to the already formidable geotechnical challenges at the site. Not only are more earthquakes occurring in proximity…