Canadian Strategy in an Era of Tremendous Change in Global Trade - January 18th 2016

Videography: www.jacobmulholland.com Canada is on the cusp of entering a new era of free trade. We have free trade agreements with 16 countries around the world. Once Canada’s free trade agreements with Europe and the members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are finalized Canada will have free trade with more than 60 per cent of the global economy. Join Elaine Feldman and a panel of experts for an examination of these issues drawn from their ground breaking new report "No Time for Complacency: A 21st Century Trade Strategy for Canada”, published by the Centre for International Policy Studies at uOttawa. Elaine Feldman, co-chair of the report, is an Executive in Residence at uOttawa, she was President of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency from 2010 to 2013. Elaine had a lengthy career in the public service of Canada and served as Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the WTO, as Assistant Deputy Minister for North America at Global Affairs Canada, as Vice-Chair of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal, and as a Canadian negotiator during the WTO Uruguay Round. Other distinguished international trade experts, practitioners and academics who worked on the report will join Ms Feldman. Future notices will list the names, as they become available, of the other panelists.