Trade and Investment Project
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The Trade and Investment Research Project (TIRP) is an independently funded project administered by the CCPA. TIRP pools the trade policy research resources and expertise of Canadian non-governmental organizations from a variety of sectors. It produces expert research on a wide range of important trade and investment policy issues.
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- Evaluating social procurement strategies under Canada’s trade commitments
- Canada’s options for intervening in the Keystone XL CUSMA lawsuit
- NAFTA’s Shadow of Obstruction
- The Rise and Demise of NAFTA Chapter 11
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Un héritage toxique
Download this Report Note : Ceci s’agit d’une version mise à jour et traduite d’un rapport qui a été initialement publié en décembre 2023. Le rapport originel est disponible en anglais…
Advancing worker-centred trade in the 2026 CUSMA review
Download this Report The labour chapter of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (Chapter 23) contains a number of significant developments compared to the labour provisions in any previously negotiated Canadian free trade…
Canada should make the most of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) review process
OTTAWA—The Canadian government shouldn’t be passive in the upcoming Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) review process; it should strive to make the trade agreement more worker- and climate-friendly, says a new report…
Making the most of the CUSMA review
Download this Report In 2026, the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement will be up for review—and the possibility of political shakeups means that governments should start preparing now. This report assesses the…
The 2026 CUSMA review: prepare for the worst, plan for progress
Download this Report Canada, the United States and Mexico are two years away from a mandatory six-year review of the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), now known as…
Getting serious about enforcing CUSMA’s environmental rules
Download this Report With annual global carbon emissions from fossil fuels in 2023 reaching the highest ever recorded, the need for urgent action on climate change beyond current government activity…
Target Mexico: Removing the bias in CUSMA dispute settlement and investor protection
Download this Report An orderly method for resolving trade disputes with the United States was a top Canadian priority in negotiations toward the 1988 Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA), the…
Trinational civil society calls for urgent clarity in CUSMA investor-state dispute process
Unions, environmental, consumer and community organizations from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico wrote to the North American Free Trade Commission this week ahead of a United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (CUSMA) trade…
Canada’s options for intervening in the Keystone XL CUSMA lawsuit
TC Energy is trying to use NAFTA provisions to punish the US government for cancelling Keystone XL. Canada should intervene against the fossil fuel company. Our content is fiercely open…
Why the Ecuador trade deal Canada wants hinges on a misleading referendum question
Canada’s hopes of quietly and quickly negotiating an “inclusive” free trade deal with Ecuador blew up in both government’s faces last week—and that’s a good thing. It has become clear…
What would a second Trump presidency mean for Canada-US relations?
Donald Trump’s unsurprising win in the New Hampshire primary all but assures a reprise presidential election battle with Joe Biden this November. Can Trump win? I wouldn’t bet against it….
US Republicans are looking to implement a carbon border tax—what does that mean?
If there are two things US Republicans abhor, its taxes and climate policy. Bring them together into a “carbon tax”—against which Canadian Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has directed so much…
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