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Climate importing: Understanding Europe’s proposed climate trade rules
Trade tensions surround prospective launch of Europe’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
The clear-cut case against ISDS with Indonesia
Forestry-related firms made regular use of NAFTA’s controversial but expiring investor-state dispute settlement process. Why is Canada opening the door to ISDS claims from Indonesian forestry giants?
Pourquoi les licences obligatoires seraient-elles insuffisantes dans l’avenir ?
Manifestement, la mise en pratique des licences obligatoires est loin d’être une panacée.
Unions win the right to challenge unfair trade practices
Workers achieved a long-fought-for trade victory in the 2022 federal budget: trade unions will soon have the right to file trade complaints against unfair imports, something only domestic producers could do before now.
After neoliberalism, a progressive globalization?
The institutions of global economic governance can be retooled to advance social and environmental justice
CUSMA has shown it can defend labour rights, but is it enough to bring lasting change to Mexican workers?
This July marked the second anniversary of the new Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Using trade preferences to raise labour standards and protect human rights
Canada’s trade preference programs should be improved to raise living standards and improve working conditions and environmental policies
CETA at five: working as intended but not as promised
In some areas, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is worse than we predicted. We present five reasons why we’re not celebrating its fifth anniversary.
Hunt for interprovincial trade barriers is stalling Canada’s post-pandemic reconstruction
Trade agreement doesn’t age well in a post-pandemic reality, with little mention of worker protections, environmental policy, or critical infrastructure.
MC12: a failure of international health diplomacy
Corporate lobbying and WTO pressure-cooker tactics killed the TRIPS waiver. Countries must find the courage to take on Big Pharma at home.
Clashing Canadian and U.S. Indo-Pacific strategies
Where the U.S. has signalled worker-centred partnerships in Asia, Canada is pursuing more corporate trade deals.
Pourquoi la nouvelle proposition sur l’accès aux vaccins est-elle insuffisante ?
Nous avons attendu qu’un accord soit trouvé autour de la dérogation aux droits de propriété intellectuelle sur les vaccins contre la COVID-19. Il n’y a rien dans la nouvelle proposition qui incite ou oblige les entreprises pharmaceutiques à divulguer les informations confidentielles et les secrets commerciaux.
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