liberalization commitments and was subject to review by the WTO’s Trade Policy Review Committee. In her view, the same mechanism …

In this chapter, Daniel Schwanen addresses the impact of the major trade liberalization efforts undertaken by Canada … and its trading partners beginning with the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in 1989. The author focuses in … particular on the question of whether liberalized trade could have been a factor behind the emergence of greater inequalities in …

Western political leaders, under pressure from increasingly vocal protestors, emphasizing the potential of trade … countries. In spite of its pious preaching in favour of trade liberalization, the North has left in place high protectionist … implementation and trade adjustment; a substantial weakening of anti-dumping regimes; and the refusal to include environmental and …