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Canada, EU still disagree on binding labour, environmental rules in CETA

mardi 12 novembre 2013 par Stuart Trew

November 12, 2013 - 3:53pm The Harper government and European Commission still cannot agree on how to handle labour and environmental rules in the recently "concluded" Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) negotiations, according to a "civil society dialogue" in Brussels this (...)

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Is Canada legally bound to release the CETA text now ?

jeudi 7 novembre 2013 par Stuart Trew

November 7, 2013 - 2:20pm A post by Robert Howse, law professor at NYU, on the International Economic Law and Policy blog suggests the Harper government has broken the law by not making the full text of the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) public and allowing for (...)

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Canada quietly ratifies controversial international investment convention

dimanche 3 novembre 2013 par Stuart Trew

November 3, 2013 - 9:47am In August 2012, the Financial Post reported that Canada was close to ratifying the ICSID Convention, a binding set of rules for how investor-to-state disputes (like the Lone Pine case against Quebec's fracking moratorium) are handled that some countries (e.g. (...)

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Déclaration : Pour faire face à l’urgence climatique, il faut démanteler l’OMC et le régime de libre-échange

samedi 2 novembre 2013 par ATTAC-Québec — Accords de libre-échange, Mondialisation, marchés financiers, crises, Accords de libre-échange, d'investissement, etc., Services publics, PPP, privatisation

ATTAC-Québec a signé cette déclaration internationale et invite les organismes du Québec à l'endosser rapidement en écrivant à climatespace.tunis@gmail.com. Cette version, qui n'indique que les premiers signataires, sera mise à jour et la déclaration finale rendu publique à l'occasion de la rencontre (...)

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UNIFOR economist Jim Stanford on CETA’s likely impact on auto sector

vendredi 1er novembre 2013 par admin — Uncategorized

UNIFOR economist Jim Stanford speaks to BNN news about the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement and specifically its likely impact on the auto sector. To read Stanford’s report, Out of Equilibrium: The Impact of Canada-European Union Free Trade in the Real world, and (...)

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New CCPA report : Impact of the trade agreement between Europe and Canada on the costs of patented drugs

vendredi 1er novembre 2013 par admin — Uncategorized

This new Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives study finds that the Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) between the European Union and Canada “will further tilt the balance towards the protection of brand-name drug manufacturers and their profits and away from Canadian (...)

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CETA and Prescription Drugs : A $1.65 billion sellout to Big Pharma

jeudi 31 octobre 2013 par Stuart Trew

October 31, 2013 - 11:58am A new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives suggests Harper's "excellent deal" with the European Union could add between $850 million and $1.65 billion annually to the price of medicine in Canada. The report, by Joel Lexchin (York University) (...)

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Canadian activist and author Yves Engler talks to The Real News about Canada-EU CETA

jeudi 31 octobre 2013 par Stuart Trew

October 31, 2013 - 9:31am Former Vice President of the Concordia Student Union, Yves Engler is an Ottawa and Montréal based activist and author. He has published seven books, including The Ugly Canadian: Stephen Harper's Foreign Policy, which he toured across Canada with participation (...)

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Canada's negotiating position in CETA could compromise deal : Van Harten

mercredi 30 octobre 2013 par Stuart Trew

October 30, 2013 - 3:15pm Gus Van Harten, the Osgoode Hall law professor, who raised a red flag over the Canada-China Foreign Investment Protection Agreement (which still isn't ratified), suggests "five reasons against celebrating our (still virtually secret) trade deal with the EU" in an (...)

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Harper throws CETA party for CEOs, tables flimsy summary of Canada-EU deal

mardi 29 octobre 2013 par Stuart Trew

October 29, 2013 - 4:03pm Today in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Harper tabled a technical summary of the political deal it reached with the European Union on Friday, October 18. He invited a dozen or more CEOs to witness the spectacle from the bleachers, and they will party it up with (...)

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