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Trade Publications
Fact Sheets
- Handbill: CETA is a bad deal for municipalities!
- Briefing: Keep Europe Out of the Tar Sands-Stop the Tar Sands Free Trade Talks: Published by The Council of Canadians, Friends of the Earth Europe, Indigenous Environmental Network, UK Tar Sands Network, January 2011
- Potential Impacts of the Proposed Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) on the Pace and Character of Oil Sands Development,
A Legal opinion prepared by Steven Shrybman (Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP) for the Council of Canadians, and the Indigenous Environmental Network, November 2010
- Yes to Europe, No to CETA, October 2010
- CETA and Corporate Lobbying: Corporations hold the power over negotiations, October 2010
- Fact sheet: Private water and CETA (bilingual) September 2010
- NAFTA’s Chapter 11: A threat to the environment and public policy, Factsheet, October 2009
- Facing the Facts about TILMA - fact sheet, February 2007
- Tell your MP that Canada needs a better trade policy
- What you should know about the WTO: glossary of trade terms
- What you should know about the WTO: Hong Kong ministerial meeting
- What you should know about the WTO: the GATS
- What you should know about the WTO: agriculture
CETA Handbills:
The Trade Justice Network, a newly formed group of which the Council of Canadians is a founding member, is comprised of environmental, labour, farmer, cultural and social justice organizations who have come together to challenge the Canada-EU free trade negotiations (CETA). The network has serious concerns about the potential impact on social and environmental policy, and public services in both Canada and Europe, and have proposed conditions that must be met before negotiations should continue.
Is CETA Good for Cities? Debunking the myths about the benefits of EU-Canada free trade, an April 2012 backgrounder from the Trade Justice Network (to be read alongside a Conservative government Q&A for municipalities)
Joint Letter to President Calderón RE: A national work stoppage has been called for Nov. 11 in Mexico in support of the Electrical Workers (SME) and against the recent militarization of Luz y Fuerza electrical instalations in Mexico City. From Common Frontiers (Council of Canadians), Canadian Energy unions, and RQIC, November 10, 2009
- PDF in English; en español; en français
Take Action for Fair Trade!
Here are some sample letters and motions that you can use to get better – and fairer – trade policies in your community. We need our municipal, provincial and federal governments to be innovative and responsive to the communities they represent, as well as the international community we are all part of. We need governments to recognize, like so many people already do, that many of the solutions to current environmental and economic crises are going to be local solutions.
Reports and articles
- Foreign Trade Zones Are Corporate Paradises, Canadian Perspectives, Autumn 2011
- Turning up the Heat on Canada-European Union Free Trade Negotiations, Canadian Perspectives, Autumn 2011
- Briefing paper: Tar Sands and the CETA, By Scott Sinclair, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, October 14, 2011
- North American Perimeter Security: This time Harper will trade away your privacy and civil liberties for “access” to the U.S. market, Canadian Perspectives, Summer 2011
- CETA’s High Toll on Health Care, Canadian Perspectives, Summer 2011
- How CETA will affect Canadian fisheries: Speaking notes of Gus Etchegary for the St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador CETA tour stop, June 29, 2011
- Submissions to Standing Committee on International Trade Re: AbitibiBowater NAFTA Claim Settlement, Steven Shrybman (Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP) board member of the Council of Canadians, March 8, 2011
- Public water for sale: How Canada will privatize our public water systems, Council of Canadians and CUPE, December 2010
- Potential Impacts of the Proposed Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) on the Pace and Character of Oil Sands Development,
A Legal opinion prepared by Steven Shrybman (Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP) for the Council of Canadians, and the Indigenous Environmental Network, November 2010
- CETA’s False Promises: Threats to food, water and jobs outweigh vain hope of increasing trade with Europe, Canadian Perspectives, Autumn 2010
- ‘Canada’s Buy American Plan? Buy American’, Canadian Perspectives, Spring 2010
- Dinosaur Economics: Why a free trade pact with the European Union is an (old) bad idea, Canadian Perspectives, Spring 2010
- No Payoff for Premiers in “Buy American” Fix, Canadian Perspectives, Autumn 2009
- Say bye to buy local - A primer on trade deals impacting Ontario, CUPE Ontario and the Council of Canadians, October 2009
 State of Play: Canada’s Internal Free Trade Agenda (PDF 139kb) - Building a Diversified, Value-Added, Productive Economy (PDF) CAW Submission to the Government of Canada’s Competition Policy Review Panel, 2008
- Why Foreign Ownership Still Matters, January 22, 2008, Mel Watkins
- NAFTA Chapter 11 Investor-State Disputes, January 1, 2008, Scott Sinclair
- Victory! Well, sort of... Council welcomes NAFTA victory while decrying NAFTA rules, Canadian Perspectives, Autumn 2007
- Why Foreign Ownership Still Matters, January 22, 2008, Mel Watkins
- NAFTA Chapter 11 Investor-State Disputes, January 1, 2008, Scott Sinclair
- Another bad deal for Canada: TILMA, deep integration and the fight for local democracy, Backgrounder, September 2007
- Free Trade’s Big Lie: NAFTA has failed to create quality jobs or close the income gap
Canadian Perspectives Spring 2007
- Courting TILMA: U.S. investors eye Alberta and B.C.’s interprovincial trade agreement
Canadian Perspectives Spring 2007
- Deep Integration and Corporate Rule INTEGRATE THIS! A Citizen's Guide to Fighting Deep Integration
- Challenging Corporate Investor Rule: How the World Bank’s Investment Court, Free Trade Agreements, and Bilateral Investment Treaties have Unleashed a New Era of Corporate Power and What to Do About It, by By Sarah Anderson of the Institute for Policy Studies
and Sara Grusky of Food and Water Watch, April 2007
- WTO on the Ropes: It’s Time for Alternatives - Canadian Perspectives, Autumn 2006
- Revisiting NAFTA: Still not working for North America's workers
Report by Robert E. Scott, Carlos Salas & Bruce Campbell, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- The BC/Alberta Trade, Investment, and Labour Mobility Agreement
A Summary of Its Impacts by Ellen Gould
- Free Trade’s Big Lie: NAFTA has failed to create quality jobs or close the income gap
Canadian Perspectives Spring 2007
- Courting TILMA: U.S. investors eye Alberta and B.C.’s interprovincial trade agreement
Canadian Perspectives Spring 2007
- Trade bullies: Hong Kong ministerial gives rich countries one last chance to pick on the south Canadian Perspectives, Spring 2006
- Citizens' right or investors' rights? Canadian Perspectives, Autumn 2005
- Making the Links: A Peoples’ Guide to the WTO and the FTAA
- Thirst for Control: New Rules in the Global Water Grab
- Trade and Culture
- The European Commission's GATS Position: A Bad Bargain for Canada
- Separating WTO Fact from Fiction (PDF)
One Night in July – By Ellen Gould
Past midnight on the evening of Saturday, July 31, 2004 the 147 members of the WTO signed a framework agreement to restart the Doha Round of trade negotiations. The full membership was given only seventeen hours to review a draft text on agriculture worked out in secret by five countries... Click here to download "One Night in July" in PDF format. (111 KB)
The Meaning of Hong Kong WTO - Published on Saturday, January 14, 2006 by CommonDreams.org by Deborah James
Brochures and pamphlets
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