BRUSSELS, 1 pm (7 a.m. ET) -- This morning we are on a 5-hour train trip from Brussels, Belgium to Strasbourg, France where the European Parliament is sitting in full session now.

Our intent is to set up as many meetings as possible with Members of the European Parliament to share with them our critique of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement.

It is also to get the Council of Canadians-CUPE report on CETA and water privatization and the Council of Canadians-Indigenous Environmental Network-Friends of the Earth Europe sponsored legal opinion on CETA and the tar sands to them.

This morning the Council of Canadians joined with Canadian allies -- the Canadian Union of Public Employees, the National Farmers Union, the Indigenous Environmental Network, ATTAC-Quebec, Alternatives -- and European allies -- Friends of the Earth Europe, the UK Tar Sands Network, La Via Campesina Europe -- in front of the European Commission headquarters in Brussels to denounce the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement and the tar sands.

My message this morning:

This afternoon we met with Reuters business reporter Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck primarily on the investor-state provision being negotiated now to be part of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement.

This provision would be the first for a European Union free-trade agreement and is less understood here than in Canada given our direct experience with Chapter 11 in NAFTA.

We provided the Reuters reporter with a copy of Steven Shrybman's legal opinion on CETA and the tar sands which can be read at http://www.canadians.org/trade/documents/CETA/legal-opinion-CETA-tarsand.... We are hopeful that this will form the basis of her article.