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Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA)

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• [01-Apr-08] BC residents find no interprovincial trade barriers at BC- Alberta border

• Provincial trade barriers? What provincial trade barriers? Globe and Mail, Murray Dobbin, January 11, 2008

• New legislation adds sharp teeth to TILMA, Vue Weekly (Edmonton), December 13, 2007

• Trade barriers a non-issue, Times & Transcript (Moncton), Stuart Trew, December 11, 2007

• [30-Nov-07] Public Pressure Forces Liberals to Drop Vote on TILMA Enforcement Bill

• [27-Nov-07] The Council of Canadians warns new Charest-McGuinty pact will undermine local democracy

• Free Trade Under Fire in Canada, Toward Freedom, Jason Tockman, October 17, 2007

• [26-Sept-07] Council of Canadians applauds UBCM rejection of TILMA

• [25-Sept-07] Council of Canadians support municipal criticism of TILMA at UBCM

• [CKUT Radio] Canada: TILMA & Corporate Economics
  Listen to an interview series on the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA), a national free trade and investment agreement for Canada, is facing growing controversy. September 13, 2007
  Part 1: Interview with Lyn Gorman, Council of Canadians, Edmonton Alberta.
  Part 2: Interview with Aaron Wier, Canadian Labor Congress, Ottawa.
  Part 3: Interview with Stuart Trew, Council of Canadians, Ottawa, Ontario.

• Pests and TILMA, The Globe and Mail, Eduardo Sousa, September 1, 2007

• [02-Aug-07] Saskatchewan Says BC-Alberta Trade Deal is Flawed: Province Will Not Join TILMA

• Talking trade, The Chronicle Herald, July 16, 2007

• NEWS: Harper to impose TILMA-like provisions by April 1, 2009, Brent Patterson,
  June 7, 2007

• Hansen Plays 'Jeopardy' with TILMA, B.C. Loses - Murray Dobbin responds to B.C. Economic Development Minister Colin Hansen's faulty defence of TILMA, May 24, 2007

• New interprovincial free trade agreement (TILMA), Redeye interview with Carleen Pickard, B.C. regional organizer for the Council of Canadians, March 2007

• Webcast from the Public Forum on TILMA, March 5, 2007 at the Vancouver Public Library. Featured speaker: Trade lawyer Stephen Shrybman. Produced by working TV.

• Legislation is just plain weird: The Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement has little to do with trade, By Terry Glavin, February 8, 2007

• TILMA 'radical' shift in business: The truth about the Conference Board study on TILMA
  By Murray Dobbin, The Daily Courier (Kelowna), January 25, 2007

• Corporate Rights Deal to Make Us April Fools: TILMA will strip our ability to set local limits. By Murray Dobbin, The Tyee, January 24, 2007

• Making the Links radio interview with Ellen Gould, January 8, 2007

• Ralph’s Last Laugh: Inter-provincial trade deal ties the hands of government
  By Ellen Gould, Briarpatch Magazine, December 2006/January 2007

• Red Alert: It's time to stop waltzing with TILMA (PDF)
  By Larry Brown, Secretary-Treasurer, National Union of Public and General Employees

• New trade pact gives away provincial rights
  CUPE, December 2006

• TILMA will trim Ontario's "excess of democracy"
  Ottawa Xpress, by Stuart Trew, November 23, 2006

• Radical B.C.-Alberta trade deal undermines elected MLAs
  NUPGE November 20, 2006

• NEWS: TILMA may expand to Quebec and Atlantic provinces November 8, 2006

• Agreement cuts provincial powers to govern, Winnipeg Free Press, By Murray Dobbin, November 3, 2006

• The BC/Alberta Trade, Investment, and Labour Mobility Agreement
  A Summary of Its Impacts by Ellen Gould, October 2006

• The British Columbia/Alberta Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility
  Agreement - Impacts on Local Government (PDF)
  CUPE British Columbia, October 2006

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updated April 1, 2008