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Stuart Trew
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Does the Liberal-NDP pact signal a new Pearsonian phase?
What the new agreement gets right—and where there’s room to go bolder
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WTO compromise on TRIPS waiver is a disgrace
After 18 months of haggling, a leaked counter-proposal covering only vaccines has global health advocates fuming
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Sunny ways for Canadian solar?
Canada’s trade win over U.S. tariffs on solar product imports is a good thing, but a regional strategy for decarbonization is where the money—and climate potential—really is.
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At the WTO, Canada fiddles while the pandemic rages on
Temporarily suspending trade rules covering COVID-19 vaccines and treatments would speed up the global recovery. Our government has other plans.
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A new trade vision for a Green New Deal
To get the just transition right, we need to defang trade and investment treaties that give polluters a veto on responsible and sustainable economic transformation.
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The false hopes and empty promises of investment treaty modernization
A Canadian company’s successful challenge to a precautionary mining ban in Colombia shows how little investor–state dispute panels care about the right to regulate.
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Platform Crunch: The Green Party platform
We dive into what the Green Party has promised ahead of the 44th Canadian election.
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Platform Crunch: Conservatives release five key planks
We dive into what the Conservative Party has promised ahead of the 44th Canadian election.
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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.
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Budget Watch 2021: How Canada can budget for Buy America
Canadian business is understandably concerned about Buy America conditions on Biden’s US$2.3-trillion COVID recovery plan. But lobbying U.S. governments for waivers for Canadian suppliers can only get us so far. In addition, the Trudeau government should increase the pool of transit, water and green energy projects these firms can bid on—by attaching sustainable and social purchasing criteria to badly needed public infrastructure upgrades here in Canada.
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If We Want to Clean Up the Oceans, We Have to Confront the Fossil Fuel Giants
Andy Morffew (Flickr Creative Commons) Throughout 2019, we saw multiple variations on the same grim headline: “Dead Whale Found With 48 Pounds of Plastic…
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An agenda for a progressive Canada-U.S. trade partnership
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