The Trade and Investment Research Project pools resources and expertise from a wide range of Canadian non-governmental organizations to understand the implications of the latest generation of trade and investment treaties. Formed in 1999, the project examines the effects of these far-reaching treaties on public services, public interest regulation, environmental protection and alternative economic development.
Trade and Investment Research Project
- CCPA is proud to co-sponsor this terrific video from our colleagues at Corporate Europe Observatory. It chronicles grassroots resistance to efforts by Canadian mining company Gabriel Resources to...June 24, 2019 | National OfficeOn September 21, Canada and the European Union announced that the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), a controversial NAFTA-plus free trade deal initiated by the Harper government and...October 17, 2017 | National OfficeThe all-party House of Commons trade committee is consulting Canadians on their priorities for bilateral and trilateral North American trade in light of the current renegotiation of NAFTA. In the...October 6, 2017 | National Office
- May 22, 2019 | National Office
How "good regulatory practices" in trade agreements erode protections for the environment, public health, workers and consumers
April 30, 2019 | National OfficeThe use and abuse of investor-state dispute settlement by Canadian investors abroad
January 16, 2018 | National OfficeNorth American Investor-State Disputes to January 2018
Analysis, opinion and multimedia resources on the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement.
For a full list of all of CCPA's work on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and its implications, click here.