An analysis of the final text of the Canada–European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
This report demonstrates in detail how the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) deal is unbalanced, favouring large multinational corporations at the expense of consumers, the environment, and the greater public interest.
This international study, involving experts from Canada and the EU, is the first independent analysis of the completed CETA text, which was leaked in August 2014. It analyzes some of the CETA’s most controversial chapters as exposed by a series of leaks in August. They include assessments of the agreement’s impacts on intellectual property rights for pharmaceutical products; investment protection, investor-state dispute settlement and financial services regulation; infrastructure procurement and buy-local food policies; public services, and many other areas.
Attachments
TOC & Executive Summary – Making Sense of the CETA
Public Procurement – Making Sense of the CETA
Public Services – Making Sense of the CETA
Regulation – Making Sense of the CETA
Intellectual Property Rights – Making Sense of the CETA
Trade, Tariffs and Transport – Making Sense of the CETA
Agriculture and Food Sovereignty – Making Sense of the CETA
Workers and the Environment – Making Sense of the CETA
Investment – Making Sense of the CETA
About the authors
Scott Sinclair
Stuart Trew
Stuart serves as director of the CCPA’s Trade and Investment Research Project (TIRP), which pools the expertise of academic, labour and non-governmental organization researchers to understand the impacts of trade and investment treaties and policy on the Canadian economy, public services, human rights and international relations.
Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood
Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood (he/him) is a senior researcher and political economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. His work focuses on federal economic, social and environmental policy, especially in the areas of climate change, artificial intelligence and industrial strategy. Hadrian edits the monthly Shift Storm newsletter on climate and labour.