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Trump’s assault on regulations and the NAFTA renegotiation
U.S. President Donald Trump’s January 30 executive action on reducing regulations has been obscured by the uproar in response to his Muslim immigration ban, Mexican…
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.…
CETA: Why the big rush to ratify?
Germans protest CETA in November 2016 (Photo by Pay Numrich / Campact).
Investor court in CETA does not fix problems with investor-state dispute settlement
Last week, the Belgian region of Wallonia ground the signing of the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) to an unexpected halt. Although the Walloons…
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…
Futureshock: CETA and democratic governance
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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…
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…
Brad Wall and the TPP: An Unrequited Love Story
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Trade committee hears big risks outweigh small rewards in TPP
I appeared yesterday at the parliamentary committee on international trade alongside Hassan Yussuff and Angella MacEwan (Canadian Labour Congress), Gus Van Harten (who just released a…
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