Canada


NAFTA wind energy dispute ramps up
The case concerns a moratorium imposed in 2011 by the Canadian province of Ontario on offshore wind energy generation projects, citing public concerns and scientific uncertainties about the health, safety, and environmental effects.
Needlessly complicated TPP rules have negative impacts on Canadian businesses
Canada and Canadian businesses will be left to grapple with numerous different legal approaches and commitments to GIs arising from domestic rules, the various trade agreements, and side letters with one-third of TPP members.
La gestion des ressources en eau dans le sillage du libre-échange - CETA
Exposé de la position de l’AöW, au sujet de l’accord de libre-échange de l’UE avec le Canada – CETA.
Parts of Canada-EU trade deal still being revised: chief negotiator
Canada is working with the European Union to revise controversial investor protection provisions in their landmark free trade deal at the direction of the new Liberal government.
Canada re-opens investment talks with India
Canada’s government has officially re-opened negotiations with India over a bilateral investment treaty the two sides nearly agreed upon almost a decade ago.
The planned regulatory cooperation between the European Union and Canada and the USA according to the CETA and TTIP drafts
This legal opinion focuses on the institutionalized regulatory cooperation envisaged in CETA and TTIP.
Ukraine to sign a free trade agreement with Canada this year
Ukraine will sign a free trade agreement with Canada and will accelerate relevant talks with Turkey and Israel.
For Canadian innovators, will TPP mean protection – or colonialism?
Despite Canada’s 14 new free-trade deals, Canada posted record trade deficits and shrinking exports throughout 2015 as prices for tangible commodities fell.
Canadian miners can take Kazakhstan to court for seized assets, rules tribunal
Eligible Canadian investors with property confiscated by the government of Kazakhstan are now legally entitled to international arbitration under the Canada/USSR BIT.
EU quietly asks Canada to rework trade deal's thorny investment clause
Both sides admit surprise as deal risks losing ratification vote thanks to anti-American sentiment.