The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has been closely involved with negotiations for the “new” NAFTA/USMCA trade deal from the beginning.
CCPA has now pulled together all of its recent NAFTA/USMCA analysis and made it available at What’s old is new again.
New research will be added regularly.
This is a wonderful resource for all of us trying to understand the ramifications of the treaty.
It includes analysis of the implications for environmental issues:
- climate change (“a profound failure for climate action”)
- energy (“scrapping proportionality didn’t cost the U.S. or corporate interests much, and the Canadian government could claim a win”)
- ISDS (“mostly disappeared”)
and many other key issues:
- labour rights (“yet another free trade deal with substandard and largely ineffective protections for workers …”)
- trade-offs re: intellecual property rights, digital trade rules, cost of medicine and much more.
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/updates/usmca-whats-old-new-again
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