The CCPA's Trade and Investment Research Project pools resources and expertise from a wide range of Canadian non-governmental organizations and academic institutions to understand how corporate trade and investment treaties affect public policy and democratic decision-making. Since 1999, TIRP research has examined and critiqued the impacts of these agreements on social, environmental and economic development policy at home and abroad.
Trade and Investment Research Project
Énergie Saguenay, Climate Action and Investment Arbitration
Evaluating social procurement strategies under Canada’s trade commitments
A briefing paper from the Trade and Investment Research Project
Evaluating the costs and benefits of participation in this U.S.-led and U.S.-designed project.
Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanisms are discredited. No new trade deal should include them.
Analysis, opinion and multimedia resources on the "New NAFTA" and progressive alternatives to the corporate trade model.
Canadian investors in the mining, oil and gas industries are behind 70 per cent of Canadian ISDS cases outside North America.