ISDS Case Map
Canada
After three years of talks and five rounds of negotiations, the Canadian government suddenly suspended free trade negotiations with Ukraine – leaving a nearly complete deal in limbo.
Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper is seeking to break a deadlock in trade talks with the EU by stepping up his part in negotiations, people familiar with the strategy said.
University of Ottawa’s Michael Geist, the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law, “decodes” the TPP for the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression
In a recent NAFTA Investor-State claim brought against the United States by Apotex Inc., Canada's largest producer of generic drugs, the Tribunal upheld the US' preliminary objections to jurisdiction on the grounds that the company's efforts to win approval for generic drugs in the US market did not make it an "investor" under NAFTA Chapter Eleven.
It’s likely that until recently very few people in Canada knew what a Foreign Investment Protection Agreement (FIPA) was. But when the Harper government announced it had signed one of these things with China, the situation changed quickly.
Government funding for the Port Hawkesbury Paper mill in Nova Scotia, Canada, violated free trade laws, a US congressman says.
Canada's Federal Court has dismissed an application by an aboriginal band in British Columbia to stay the Canada-China investment treaty until First Nations have been consulted.
In many ways, the Pacific Alliance represents a resurgence of the failed U.S. initiated FTAA which was part of an agenda to consolidate corporate control.
Ministers from the 12 Trans-Pacific Partnership countries, including International Trade Minister Ed Fast, should stop their secret negotiations and immediately make public the 26 chapters of the TPP when they meet in Brunei this week, say Canadian groups
A small polity of First Nations peoples, the Hupacasath, could be the only obstacle to stop the ratification of what may well be the most devastating corporate empowerment treaty that Canada will ever endure.
