July 27, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
The Honorable Sergio Marchi, Canada's former Ambassador to the WTO and currently a business advisor in Lang Michener LLP's International Trade Group and the Chairman of the Canadian Services Coalition has sent Trade Lawyers Blog...
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July 24, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
The Honourable Sergio Marchi, a business advisor to Lang Michener LLP and former Canadian Ambassador to the WTO and former International Trade Minister for Canada, send Trade Lawyers Blog the following article from the Financial...
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February 19, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On February 19, 2008, a task force proposed “profound” changes to Quebec's health care system, including a greater role for the private sector. The head of the task force is former Liberal minister and insurance...
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December 18, 2007By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AS THERE MAY BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO RECEIVE COMPENSATORY RELIEF (THIS DOES NOT MEAN A PAYMENT OF MONEY)
The deadline for submitting views is January 4, 2008.
In the December 8, 2007 issue of the Canada...
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December 05, 2007By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
Canada is negitating a free trade agreement with the CARICOM countries (Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and...
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December 05, 2007By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On June 7, 2007, the Government of Canada announced that it had commenced negotiations of a free trade agreement with the Dominican Republic. In order to ensure that the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade...
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November 20, 2007By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
Canada's Globe & Mail reported that on November 19, 2007, Japan began fingerprinting foreigners entering the country. The measures are communicated to be based on an anti-terrorism policy. Hisashi Toshioka,...
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October 01, 2007By: Susan Kohn Ross
The U.S., Mexico and Canada continue to seek ways to increase competitiveness in the North American region. The last leaders' meeting was in August 2007. For more details about the results of that meeting, see...
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September 09, 2007By: Susan Kohn Ross
Will the current APEC meeting revive the Doha Round? For one view, see this September 6, 2007 article from Commonwealth Publishing.
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September 09, 2007By: Susan Kohn Ross
On December 6, 2007, the U.S. Dept. of Transportation cleared Mexican trucks so they will now officially be allowed to travel beyond the border zones.
It has been reported that the first companies given permission to bring their...
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August 30, 2007By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
The Canadian tourism industry believes that the confusion concerning the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative is discouraging Americans from making overnight trips to Canada. The statistics may support their...
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