14-Jan-2019
Food Secure Canada
How do new technologies and renegotiated supply management rules affect our food system? And, how do we move past the black/white, good/bad binaries that so often frame debates about trade-related issues?
14-Jan-2019
Chicago Tribune
NAFTA 2.0 would effectively tie the US Congress’ hands in the struggle against rising drug prices.
10-Jan-2019
Nation of Change
We can stop NAFTA II and replace corporate trade with a new model that raises working conditions and protects the environment.
8-Jan-2019
Canadian Dimension
The outcome of the “Trump moment” is likely, for all its protectionist rhetoric, to end up further legitimating free trade.
3-Jan-2019
Washington Post
Investment treaties with ISDS provisions make it hard to tax foreign firms and worsen human rights and labor practices.
19-Dec-2018
The Conversation
Westmoreland Coal is suing Canada because it did not receive a transition payment following Alberta’s coal phaseout plan. For the province, coal mining companies have no role to play in the energy transition.
5-Dec-2018
Public Citizen
The Intellectual Property Chapter of the revised NAFTA, rebranded by the Trump Administration USMCA, includes provisions that threaten to undermine critical efforts towards affordable health care and medicine.
1-Dec-2018
Behind the Numbers
It is unrealistic to expect even the most gold-plated labour provisions in FTAs to redress the vast power imbalance between workers and gigantic, internationally mobile corporations.
20-Nov-2018
The Globe and Mail
A US coal miner is launching a NAFTA suit against Alberta over its policy to phase out coal in the electricity system by 2030.
13-Nov-2018
Financial Post
International Trade Minister Jim Carr says China’s interest in so many Canadian products could ultimately lead to a comprehensive trade deal.