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Tracking Progress
Evaluating government plans and actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Canada Download 1.24 MB 62 pages This report finds that Canadian climate change policy…
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…
#Budget 2017: baby step on climate when a leap is needed
Budget 2017 maintains the federal government’s modest momentum on climate action. The latest plan builds on the investments made in Budget 2016 with new spending…
Canada’s climate ambition gap (in one chart)
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How closing tax loopholes could pay for a green economy
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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…
Canada-EU trade deal will result in job losses, lower wages, and worse inequality
In Europe this weekend over 100,000 people are expected to protest the proposed Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). They are the latest in a series…
How a Russian mining company used a Canadian investment treaty to sue Venezuela for $1.5 billion
Rusoro Mining declared victory yesterday in its four-year legal battle with the government of Venezuela over the nationalization of the gold industry in 2011. The company was…
Ontario’s new climate plan needs bigger sticks, more carrots
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No need for FOMO: Canada would be better off ditching TPP
We’ve consistently argued that the Trans-Pacific Partnership will bring high social and environmental costs and few economic benefits to Canada. The deal privileges multinational corporations and foreign investors while failing…
Migrant Workers and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
A regulatory impact analysis of the TPP’s temporary entry provisions Download 735.14 KB 32 pages This study investigates the TPP’s chapter on “temporary entry for…
Does the Liberal budget follow through on environmental promises?
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