ISDS Case Map
Canada
The federal government has agreed to add a new element to Canada's proposed free-trade agreement with Colombia. "It will be the first FTA in the world to require an annual human-rights assessment to be tabled in both countries' parliaments," the amendment's author says.
Amid new reports of human rights abuses in Colombia involving the assassination of union leaders, Canada’s largest labour organization says it is appalled the Harper government will try to fast-track approval of a free trade deal with that country.
Corporacion Quiport S.A., the company building the new Quito international airport, has initiated arbitration proceedings at ICSID against the Republic of Ecuador in connection with its concession to maintain and operate the existing Quito airport and to construct and operate the New Quito International Airport (NQIA) being built outside Ecuador’s capital.
Canada High Commissioner in India Mr Joseph Caron said his country is pressing for entering into a foreign investment protection treaty with ours.
A Canada-US deal on 'Buy American' trade restrictions opens the door for more sweeping liberalization of provincial and territorial procurement policies, including momentum for a proposed trade deal with the European Union. Union and anti-free-trade groups have slammed the deal.
US farmers will gain duty-free access for their grain in 2016 because of the US-Morocco free-trade deal. "Canadian farmers really need a similar deal to level the playing field," says the Canadian Wheat Board.
But a new wrinkle was added to the negotiations with the final signing of the Lisbon treaty in 2009. Under the treaty, it is now the European Parliament which must approve the final agreement.
Canadian and European Union representatives are to meet this week in Brussels for a second round of free trade negotiations, Canada's top trade official said Monday.
For the second time in a week, a prominent anti-mining activist has been assassinated in El Salvador.
Continuing political turmoil in the military-ruled Burma have caused major hurdles in the proposed free-trade deals being negotiated by members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations with the European Union, Canada and the United States.
