Canada


What the Trans-Pacific Partnership means for the cost of drugs
A quick analysis of the leaked text shows there are good reasons to be concerned that the TPP's generous IP protections could still prove a minefield for efforts to control drug costs in Canada
FACIL contre le Partenariat transpacifique et la Loi antiterroriste de 2015
FACIL tient à affirmer publiquement son opposition au PTP. La version finale du chapitre sur la propriété intellectuelle confirme les craintes des principaux organismes qui défendent les droits et les libertés des humains dans la société numérique.
Public services under attack through TTIP and CETA
EU trade deals with Canada and the US could endanger citizens’ rights to basic services like water and health, as negotiators are doing the work of some of the EU’s most powerful corporate lobby groups in pushing an aggressive market opening agenda in the public sector.
Numerous side deals to accompany final TPP trade agreement, say officials
Canada could sign as many as 15 side deals on a range of issues when the time comes to ink the final text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Canada has an ISDS clause with the US. It has faced 35 challenges. Is this Australia’s future?
Up until now, Australia has never agreed to provide American investors with access to Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), whereas Canada has. In total Canada has faced 35 challenges. Australia has been subjected to only one case.
Free trade and protectionism don't mix
Dairy farmers from around Ottawa took their cows and tractors to Parliament Hill this week, to protest the changes they expect in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
Selling Canada out, one deal at a time
What little we know about the Harper government's many international trade deals is cause for grave concern.
Canada misses the cut for EU’s proposed investor-state dispute court
Canada will likely be left out of a new system proposed by the European Union for settling disputes between countries and corporations—at least for now.
Farmers protest over trade talk fears
Farmers in Ontario and Quebec fear that the Trans-Pacific Partnership could spell the end of the supply management system that keeps their operations profitable.
Murray Rankin v. Canada
Rankin acted on behalf of an American mining corporation in its successful bid to sue Canada using NAFTA.