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Canada’s lackluster performance under CETA should be a lesson
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Should Canada Ratify CETA?
CCPA Submission to the Parliamentary Committee on International Trade Download 165.31 KB11 pages CETA is much more than a trade deal. It is therefore not enough to just to assess which export sectors stand to gain and lose from EU-Canada tariff elimination. This submission flags some of CETA’s more problematic…
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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 Trade Agreement as released in February 2016. The dozen or so European and Canadian contributors herein look at how CETA would, if ratified, have far-reaching…
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CETA: A Hot Topic at Gathering of Municipal Leaders
The Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) was a hot topic of debate at the recent Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) annual conference, held in Halifax. Leading up to the June 3-6 conference, the Union of BC Municipalities called on the FCM to seek a “clear, permanent exemption” for…
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CETA investment reforms won’t prevent corporate attacks on health and environment
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Corporate Europe Observatory, Friends of the Earth Europe, Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung (German Forum on Environment & Development) and the Transnational Institute BRUSSELS, AMSTERDAM, BERLIN, OTTAWA – Dangerous attacks against regulations protecting the public interest and the environment would not be prevented by the European Commission’s new…
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The Risks of Rushing CETA
A briefing note on Bill C-30, implementing legislation for the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Download 127.42 KB7 pages The implementing legislation for the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, Bill C-30, makes a number of unilateral changes to various Canadian laws that will be permanent even if CETA…
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Canada-EU trade deal undermines public interest regulation, workers: study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Ottawa and Berlin—A new transatlantic study finds that the proposed Canada–European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), far from being a “progressive” deal, will elevate the rights of corporations above workers and the environment and undermine government regulatory flexibility. In this new edition of…
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Making Sense of the CETA
First assessment of complete Canada–EU trade deal questions benefits, highlights imbalances in negotiated outcome READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—A new analysis of the recently leaked Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), demonstrates in detail how the deal is unbalanced,…
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The CETA and Nova Scotia: Oversold Benefits, Untold Costs
Halifax—Close consideration of the probable costs and benefits of the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (“CETA”) for Nova Scotia reveals that the agreement’s benefits are being oversold, while its costs and consequences are minimized or even ignored. According to projections in the new CCPA-NS report, CETA and NS: Who pays for…
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Reconciliation in action?
Far from it, says chief of holdout First Nation over deal with province on Site C In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was tasked with informing all Canadians about what happened to Indigenous Peoples in residential schools, defined the word reconciliation as a process of “establishing and maintaining…
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From NAFTA to CETA: Corporate lobbying through the back door
Download 1.35 MB21 pages Business lobby groups have long complained of different consumer protection and health measures creating unreasonable “barriers” to trade and investment. They have now identified international co-operation, with industry input at the earliest stages of regulatory development, as the next great leap forward to shape globalization according…
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CETA or sustainable growth: it’s time to choose
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