Proponents of Canada's trade deal with the European Union are about to find out if eight years of negotiations and lobbying were worth it. Final preparations are underway to provisionally apply most of the agreement by July 1.
Plus de 80 députés européens ont signé une lettre de soutien au Parlement de Wallonie et au Parlement de la Fédération de Wallonie-Bruxelles dans leur refus de délégation des pleins pouvoirs au gouvernement fédéral pour la signature de l'accord CETA...
By announcing changes Monday to what we had been told was a done deal, Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland has acknowledge that a trade agreement can, in fact, be modified in the face of massive public opposition and mobilization.
European Union officials quietly approached Justin Trudeau's new government last fall with a request to revisit controversial investment protections in the Canada-EU trade deal. Both sides are afraid of losing the ratification vote in Brussels.