Blogs
Maude Barlow – Combating TTIP’s Canadian cousin
By: Maude Barlow
Date: 11 February 2016
Maude Barlow, Chair of the Council for Canadians, has dedicated her life to fighting injustice, particularly ‘free trade’ deals. In November, she toured the UK to raise awareness of CETA, a Canada-EU trade deal which has been called ‘TTIP’s ugly brother’. In this interview, Maude told Nick Dearden why she thinks CETA is just as scary as TTIP – and how she got into campaigning.
Read moreCanada is the most sued country in the ‘developed’ world, and that should sound alarm bells in the EU
By: Maude Barlow
Date: 30 October 2015
Several weeks ago, hundreds of thousands of people across Europe and the UK marched to protest the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a massive planned new trade deal between […]
Read moreWhy Canada is one of the most sued countries in the world
By: Maude Barlow
Date: 23 October 2015
Campaigns: Trade
NAFTA, the free trade deal between Canada, the USA and Mexico that came into effect in 1994, was the first trade deal among developed countries to include an investor-state provision. […]
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