Free to Move: Strengthening
the Canadian Economic Union, The Canada Round 14, by David M. Brown, Fred Lazar, and Daniel Schwanen.
Not exact matches
Bill Curry reports in today's Globe that, at last year's
economic policy retreat, business leaders urged Finance Minister Flaherty to reduce the pay of «overpriced»
Canadian workers, including through anti
union right to work legislation.
Another way that the current crisis hurts those at the bottom of the
economic ladder was revealed in a conversation with Lucy Luna, a United Food and Commercial Workers
union organizer among immigrant farm workers in the Fraser Valley, who notes that the reduced value of the
Canadian dollar means that the remittances sent home to Mexico by the «guest workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. dollar.
Winterhalt points to Europe as the Next Big Market for
Canadian exporters, thanks to the Comprehensive
Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) negotiated between Canada and the European
Union (EU).
A labour economist for Unifor, the
union representing
Canadian autoworkers and others, said the government study is a useful corrective to the claim that overpaid workers are damaging Canada's
economic prospects.
Canadian pharmaceutical patent owners can expect two substantive changes in the next year following implementation of the Canada — European
Union Comprehensive
Economic and Trade Agreement («CETA»):
However, most of these aspects are already enshrined in
Canadian law, while others, such as patent term extensions for pharmaceuticals, are part of the recent Canada - European
Union Comprehensive
Economic and Trade Agreement, which is awaiting ratification by the
Canadian and European governments.
UK - based law firms will find the
Canadian market especially of interest, as
Canadian markets open up to the European
Union when the Comprehensive
Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is ratified towards the end of 2015 or in 2016.