Why the Ecuador trade deal Canada wants hinges on a misleading referendum question
Ecuador’s April 21 vote on investor-state dispute settlement could quash mining sector hopes in the looming negotiations
Stuart Trew is the Director of the CCPA's Trade and Investment Research Project and the former Editor of the Monitor.
Ecuador’s April 21 vote on investor-state dispute settlement could quash mining sector hopes in the looming negotiations
While the government publicly frets over a possible second Trump presidency, the last thing we need is another appeasement strategy.
We should use the six-year renewal of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement to strip out Trump-era language benefiting big tech oligarchs. Then keep pushing.
Civil society organizations and academics are warning about investor-state dispute settlement
It’s time to treat the novel investor-state dispute settlement system like a stranded asset
Canada’s new Digital Services Tax (DST) will draw trade flack, but that’s no reason not to move ahead with it.
The Canada-Africa Economic Cooperation Strategy is an opportunity to cancel treaties that can hamper sustainable development and human rights
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.
Ongoing USMCA case will test the agreement’s bias in favour of biotech companies and genetically modified foods
Mining and land reforms draw both corporate flack and international calls for investment treaty termination
Canada should join Australia and New Zealand in neutralizing lopsided corporate protections in CPTPP
We’re not expecting many bells and whistles in this federal budget. It doesn’t need to be that way.
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