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CETA is no antidote to Trump or his far-right ilk in Europe
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What will Trump target in a NAFTA renegotiation?
On his first full day in office, Donald Trump made good on his pledge to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), effectively killing the deal.…
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…
CETA: Why the big rush to ratify?
Germans protest CETA in November 2016 (Photo by Pay Numrich / Campact).
CETA to be signed unchanged, but less likely to be ratified after Wallonian resistance
An advertisement for Wallonia at the Brussels airport.
Wallonia’s inspiring stand on CETA
Today the regional government of Wallonia in Belgium rebuffed Canada’s last-minute efforts to salvage a deeply flawed and increasingly unpopular transatlantic free trade agreement. By…
Flimsy CETA declaration leaves public services, water policy vulnerable in Canada-EU deal
After a year of large public demonstrations against Canada-EU free trade, which have—refreshingly—given some European politicians cold feet, the Canadian government and European Commission have…
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…
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…
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…
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