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Tag: TPP
Trans-Pacific trade deal carries huge potential for Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes The agreement gives Canada a bargaining chip in dealing with large players outside the pact, such as China and the U.S.
China may balk at Taiwan entry into resurrected TPP
Reading Time: 3 minutes From Canada’s viewpoint, considerations like global security, freedom, human rights and democracy support Taiwan’s case
“Progressive” trade agenda leads to regressive results
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada wants to include social and environmental standards in trade deals. Countries like China aren’t interested in anything but economic advancement
TPP2 death knell for supply management, and that’s a good thing
Reading Time: 3 minutes The new Trans-Pacific deal will boost agri-food industries. But it’s a nail in the coffin for Canada’s protectionist supply-management sectors
Trudeau’s Asian trip a diplomatic and trade disaster
Reading Time: 4 minutes The PM had a chance to join a global effort to protect Canadian research and innovation, but he failed. And that wasn’t his only failure
Trudeau stands tall in Asia by rejecting the status quo
Reading Time: 4 minutes By rejecting the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Trudeau is signalling that globalization has abandoned some key principles and must be fixed
Dissecting Trudeau’s Trans-Pacific tap dance
Reading Time: 3 minutes Was the prime minister simply late to a critical meeting on the trade deal or did he attempt to sabotage it?
New TPP trade deal offers huge long-term gain
Reading Time: 3 minutes Freer trade under the TPP will lower tariffs barriers, open up new markets, and provide new customers to Canadian producers
TPP an economic opportunity, not a guarantee of economic success
Reading Time: 3 minutes The TPP will open new doors for Canadian exports and create significant international trade opportunities