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Blog
Gordon Laxer
| The new agreement, USMCA, is subject to review every six years. When it dies, Canada and the U.S. will revert to an old agreement with an energy clause that would kneecap any future climate action. |
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Blog
Sujata Dey
| The old NAFTA gutted local economies by putting profit and free trade over people and the planet. Will the new agreement, which will likely be ratified in 2020, be any better? |
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Podcast
Marc Belanger, Derek Blackadder
| RadioLabour's Canada Report July 12 to 19, 2019. The proposed replacement for NAFTA is not good enough. U.S. labour also opposes NAFTA 2.0. The LabourStart Report. And more. |
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Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| Consider the dissimilar cases of Meng Wanzhou and Stephanie Clifford. The first we won't allow to leave, the second we won't allow to visit. |
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Blog
Marie Aspiazu
| Last week, Canada signed a rebranded NAFTA deal after months of suspense and secretive negotiations. But what does the deal mean for the internet? Here's the lowdown. |
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Blog
Brent Patterson
| Despite the spin, commentators argue that culture and media wasn't protected by the Trudeau government in NAFTA 2.0. |
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Blog
Mel Watkins
| With one trade agreement having failed us, some are arguing that we should diversify our trade beyond the U.S. market by signing on to more trade deals. But is that the wrong lesson? |
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Columnists
Duncan Cameron
| In ongoing talks with Japan and the EU, the U.S. plans to use the precedent created by a concession granted in the USMCA to advance the American goal of punishing China for its trade practices. |
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Blog
Sophia Reuss
| It was a busy week. We wasted no time in distilling the good, the bad, and the ugly in NAFTA 2.0; analyzing the outcome of the Quebec elections; looking at the latest Trans Mountain Pipeline updates. |
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Blog
Brent Patterson
| The transnational corporations that are driving climate chaos celebrate the new USMCA. |
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Blog
Sujata Dey
| At midnight on Sunday, Canada and the U.S. agreed on a new NAFTA deal, now called the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. Here is the good, the bad and the ugly within the agreement. |
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Blog
Brent Patterson
| Although the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal phases out NAFTA's Chapter 11, analysis suggests transnational capital has other tricks up its sleeve to challenge the public interest. |
