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Remarks to a Town Hall Meeting on the CETA
Last week I spoke along with Maude Barlow and Paul Moist at a well-attended public meeting in Charlottetown on the Canada – European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). The PEI meeting was the last stop in a cross-country tour by Maude and Paul. Here are my opening remarks.…
December 12, 2011
The end of Site C? BC Utilities Commission finds “tension cracks” in BC Hydro’s case for the mega dam
The BC Utilities Commission final report on Site C is a bombshell. It now seems very likely we will see the termination of the BC Hydro mega-project by the end of the year. I had anticipated a final report that was more equivocal, which would result in a difficult decision…
November 3, 2017
Trade and Investment Research Project

CETA: Constraining Manitoba’s Economic Prospects and Policy Options
Download 1.2 MB 42 pages This report also examines the potential impact of providing foreign investors with increased access to public procurement and the impact of weakening the provincial government’s ability to promote regional development and to ensure that Manitobans benefit from the province’s natural resources. The increased patent protection…
February 7, 2013
Trade and Investment Research Project

Tar Sands and the CETA
The recent decision by the European Union (EU) to disregard Canadian government pressure and forge ahead with regulations that recognise the higher green-house-gas intensity of fuel produced from tar sands and oil shale is encouraging. But, as reported in today’s Globe and Mail, the Canadian government is still lobbying furiously against…
October 19, 2011
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Site C’s economic justifications unconvincing: It’s time we made decisions differently
There is no question that the new BC government’s decision to proceed with the Site C dam was a very difficult one. The previous government left them with a poison pill. With $2 billion already spent, the Horgan government faced a no-win choice, with substantial political and economic costs for…
January 16, 2018
Trade and Investment Research Project

Canada – EU Trade Deal Bad for Manitoba
Recent leaks from the negotiations between Canada and EU confirm concerns that a comprehensive economic and trade agreement (CETA) would infringe on Manitoba’s ability to promote economic development and advance public interests. The proposed precedent-setting agreement would expand investor rights and extend the reach of international economic agreements, fully covering…
December 14, 2012
Trade and Investment Research Project

CETA and Nova Scotia
Who Pays for ‘Free’ Trade? Download 514.25 KB 44 pages This report is a step toward remedying the unjustifiable lack of transparency about the Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement (CETA), and toward stimulating much-needed public debate about its potential impacts on Nova Scotia.
October 23, 2012
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Eight reasons the Site C dam is not needed: My testimony to BC Utilities Commission
Last week, I appeared before the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC) at their Technical Presentation Session in Vancouver, and gave a brief presentation about my findings relating to the economics of the proposed Site C dam. Here’s what I had to say: Thank you to the Commission for the invitation to…
October 16, 2017
The CETA and Nova Scotia: Oversold benefits, Untold Costs
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October 23, 2012
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The CETA and Health Care Reservations
A briefing note for the Canadian Health Coalition Download 123.85 KB 2 pages There is a clear incompatibility between Canadian health care policies and the increasing scope of international trade and investment treaties. Canada’s public health insurance system and the regulations around who can provide health care services and on…
March 24, 2011
BC First Nation logs almost all of its treaty lands, leaving behind lots of stumps and questions
In just three years, much of the McLeod Lake Indian Band’s treaty lands were stripped of their bountiful and exceedingly valuable trees in a surge of logging that included one massive clear-cut that is almost 3,000 hectares in size, or 7.5 times larger than Vancouver’s Stanley Park. The extensive…
July 10, 2023
Trade and Investment Research Project

The EU wants a wide-open banking system. We should say no.
The stakes are high in the last stages of the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) talks, yet there remains a serious lack of public information and debate about what is actually on the table. Negotiators boast that the CETA is the most ambitious and comprehensive economic treaty ever,…
June 18, 2013