Global trade governance is undergoing many important and far-reaching changes – in multilateral organizations, through non-binding intergovernmental guidelines and standards, and in the private sector. This brief provides an overview of this evolving landscape...
To round out this CIC series on Canada-China relations, and set the stage for future work, this article presents 10 core questions as a basis for a coherent, constructive and effective China policy. The US Senate’s most recent decision to invest $250 billion to boost...
This article is part of a series the CIC has offered to host commissioned by the China Policy Centre, in cooperation with the University of Alberta’s China Institute, and the support of Global Affairs Canada. As blistering bilateral tension drives calls for economic...
The International Health Regulations, last revised by Member States of the WHO in 2005, are the primary global agreement governing the international response to global health emergencies. The primary aim of the IHR, under Article 2, is to control the cross-border...
The CETA negotiations demonstrated the significant institutional weaknesses of current federal-provincial/territorial relations with respect to international trade treaties and the need to return to ‘summit federalism’. Prime Minister Trudeau, Minister Freeland and...