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  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    A Canada–U.K. deal that protects Big Oil? We should be cheesed off.

    A post-CETA free trade deal with the United Kingdom should facilitate decarbonization and a just transition, not get in the way.

    A post-CETA free trade deal with the United Kingdom should facilitate decarbonization and a just transition, not get in the way.

  • Site C in early October, shortly after the Peace River was diverted so that construction could begin of the massive earth-filled dam that will permanently block the river.

    Who’s minding the shop at Site C?

    Appointment of engineer with long-term ties to BC Hydro to be government’s “independent” advisor on dam’s construction raises vexing questions In 2011, his last year as a salaried employee at BC Hydro, Tim Little earned just under $210,000 as the Crown corporation’s chief engineer. The next year, after decades of…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    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 Freeland announced that Canada and the European Union had finished the “legal scrub” of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). Now, she said, the…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Making Sense of the CETA

    An analysis of the final text of the Canada–European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Download 3.57 MB 128 pages This report demonstrates in detail how the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) deal is unbalanced, favouring large multinational corporations at the expense of consumers, the environment, and the greater…

  • The Perils of CETA

    Proposed Canada-EU trade deal a bad deal for most Canadians As its name suggests, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (or CETA) is intended to be an ambitious agreement that will affect matters beyond international trade. In every bilateral trade negotiation since NAFTA, Canada has been the larger party, able…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    PEI and the CETA

    Remarks by Scott Sinclair, to a public meeting on the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) in Charlottetown, PEI Introduction No one questions that international trade is vital for the Canadian and PEI economies. But there are legitimate questions that need to be asked about who benefits from trade…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    How German Opposition Could Sink a Major Canadian Trade Pact

    Furor over mechanism allowing foreign investors to sue states could sap CETA. Originally published June 20, 2014 on TheTyee.ca Editor’s note: The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative’s trade policy analyst Scott Sinclair visited Berlin recently to testify on the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) before the Food, Agriculture…

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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 poised to sign the deal at a ceremony in Brussels in October. Whether Europeans are ready to actually ratify it is still an open question.…

  • Fast Facts: What is a CETA, and why should we be worried about it?

    The Canadian Government is well down the road, with the European Union, towards negotiating a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).  They tell us that CETA will have everything that NAFTA has, plus more.  They say that like it’s a good thing.  But the more one looks at this Comprehensive…

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    To break housing gridlock, we need to democratize unrepresentative public hearings

    Housing policy has a democracy problem. Amid a housing crisis, highly unrepresentative public hearing processes contribute to land-use decisions that fail to reflect the perspectives and interests of all affected residents. But the right reforms can help deepen democracy and break housing gridlock. At the municipal level, decisions about providing…

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    CETA trade deal still shrouded in tight secrecy

    After nearly five years of negotiations, the details of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) remain shrouded in secrecy.  In October, Prime Minister Harper, eager to deflect attention from the Senate scandal, went to Brussels to announce an “agreement-in-principle.” Since then, federal ministers have fanned out across…

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    CETA undermines Canada’s ability to benefit from increased international trade

    The comprehensive economic and trade agreement (CETA), now in the final stage of negotiations between Canada and the European Union, presents Canadians with dubious trade benefits and a number of serious downsides. The challenge for Canada’s pattern of trade is to move beyond a reliance on natural resource exports by…