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Analysis: Cows block path toward Canada-EU free trade deal
13-Jun-2013 Reuters
Salvaging a free-trade deal between Canada and the European Union after four years of talks will require skillful pasture politicking to pacify beef and dairy cow farmers who see more risk than opportunity.
Fisheries talks raise alarm
30-May-2013 The Telegram
Opposition politicians in Newfoundland and in Ottawa are expressing concern about potential fisheries industry giveaways at the negotiating table on Canada-Europe free trade talks, but the province’s fisheries union said Tuesday that fewer trade barriers would be a good thing.
Divide over beef last bridge to cross on road to EU trade pact
10-May-2013
The European Union’s ambassador to Canada said special access for agriculture goods is the last obstacle to a trade deal between Brussels and Ottawa, and drew a line in the sand over how much market access the EU could offer Canadian beef producers.
Canada says close to agreeing long-delayed EU free-trade deal
7-May-2013 Reuters
Canada is close to finalizing a long-delayed free-trade deal with the European Union but will not set a timetable for reaching an agreement, even though the EU is set to start talks with the United States, a top official said on Monday.
Five reasons Canada should NOT ratify a Canada-EU free trade agreement
26-Apr-2013 Troy Media
There are many reasons why Prime Minister Stephen Harper should walk away from the CETA negotiations. Most relate to the ways that CETA is not about trade at all but about making dubious policy reforms that constrain our economic, social and environmental policy options in the future.
Final Push for a Canada-EU CETA and the Coming NAFTA-EU Free Trade Zone
29-Mar-2013 Be Your Own Leader
Just like any of the other so-called next-generation trade and investment deals, CETA is based on the failed NAFTA model with the same false promises. These secretive and binding international agreements are not really about trade, but are in fact designed to reshape regulatory and policy frameworks to further increase the rights of corporations and investors.
EU-Canada free-trade agreement could lay groundwork for larger accord with US
15-Mar-2013 AFP
If Europe can secure a free trade deal with Canada, it would lay the groundwork for a planned, much larger accord with the United States, French and Canadian leaders said Thursday.
Canadian meat producers don’t need CETA, aren’t filling existing export quotas: NFU
10-Mar-2013 rabble
Canadian beef exporters are using less than half of their tariff-free quota access to the European market and pork exporters come nowhere close to meeting their allowances, says the National Farmers Union this week. The data completely undermines the Harper government’s — and the meat sector — case for CETA, which appears to hinge on increased meat quotas for Canadian producers.
Canada worries about US-EU free trade
2-Mar-2013 BBC
Some experts in Ottawa think that the launch of EU-US trade negotiations could derail the EU-Canada talks
EU negotiator says Canada must give up more to get free-trade deal
22-Feb-2013
Stark differences between Canada and the European Union in their free-trade talks came into focus Thursday when the EU’s chief negotiator said Canada isn’t offering enough concessions to conclude a deal.
Libre-échange avec l’Europe: Ottawa doit modifier ses positions, dit Bruxelles
22-Feb-2013 Associated Press
Le commissaire européen au Commerce de l’Union européenne (UE) dit espérer pouvoir conclure rapidement l’entente de libre-échange avec le Canada, mais que pour ce faire, Ottawa doit changer ses positions. Le commissaire n’a cependant donné aucun détail.
CETA Investor-State Dispute Settlement process “anti-democratic, unnecessary and unfair,” says NFU
16-Feb-2013 National Farmers Union
The National Farmers Union is among the labour, environmental, Indigenous, women’s, academic, health sector and fair trade organizations representing over 65 million people from both sides of the Atlantic that have signed a joint statement demanding that Canada and the EU stop negotiating an excessive and controversial investor rights chapter in the proposed Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).
NDP leader Tom Mulcair on a tightrope as he ponders Canada-EU free trade
12-Feb-2013
New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair faces a risky balancing act as he weighs the possibility of supporting the proposed Canada-Europe free trade agreement.
Think-tank says trade deal between Canada, Europe could kill Manitoba jobs
7-Feb-2013
A left-leaning think-tank has issued another warning that a free trade deal between Canada and Europe could kill jobs rather than create them.
Canadian seafood industry eyes UK market as free trade deal moves closer
6-Feb-2013
The European Union and Canada are close to signing a free trade agreement which will almost certainly open the way for more Canadian fish and seafood imports into Britain.
Excessive corporate rights in Canada-EU trade deal are unacceptable to broad section of European, Canadian and Quebec society
6-Feb-2013 Market Wire
Labour, environmental, Indigenous, women’s, academic, health sector and fair trade organizations from Europe, Canada and Quebec representing more than 65 million people are demanding that Canada and the EU stop negotiating an excessive and controversial investor rights chapter in the proposed Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).
EU and Canada to continue free-trade negotiations in Ottawa
5-Feb-2013
The Canadian government is prepared to knock holes in the hefty tariff walls shielding dairy producers from foreign competition and admit more European cheese into this country in return for greater access to EU markets for Canada’s beef and pork.
EU trade minister heading to Canada, free trade deal close to completion
30-Jan-2013
European Union Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht will be in Ottawa next week to meet International Trade Minister Ed Fast and look to complete negotiations on the Canada-EU free-trade agreement.
Marois warns she may scuttle Canada-EU trade deal if Quebec not satisfied
29-Jan-2013
Quebec could throw a monkey wrench into any free-trade deal between Canada and the European Union if it’s not satisfied with the treaty’s contents, Premier Pauline Marois warned Monday.
Lobster fishermen eye Canada-EU trade deal
28-Jan-2013
New Brunswick fishermen are closely watching negotiations between Canada and the European Union as the two try to hammer out a free trade deal.