Investment Disputes – Hot-Button Topic
I confess I’m not a fan of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. I find much of their stuff to be ideologically-driven and one-sided. I’m put off by their anti-free trade rhetoric and their...
View ArticleCanada and Investment Disputes-Tallying the Numbers
Canada Pays Out The federal government just announced that it was paying Mobil Investments and Murphy Oil some $19 million to satisfy a decision of a NAFTA investment arbitration panel last year. The...
View ArticleInvestment Disputes: The Mesa Power Case and What It Says
Canada won another NAFTA investment dispute launched by a US investor under Chapter 11 of the NAFTA, the full 26 March 2016 decision recently being released. Observers of these investment cases are...
View ArticleInvestment Arbitration – Important Developments in Tobacco Litigation
The huge multinational tobacco conglomerate, Philip Morris (PM), was bounced out of court on 14 July 2016, in a highly controversial investment claim against tiny Uruguay, a country with a population...
View ArticleBC’s Non-Resident Home Purchase Taxes and International Trade
Comments have been made in some quarters about the recently-announced 15% tax imposed by the BC government on non-resident purchases of residential property to the effect the measure might offend...
View ArticleCanada-US Investment Disputes: An Update
NAFTA Investment Disputes-Update Feb 2018.docx
View ArticleCanada-US Investment Disputes Coming to End
Here is a commentary in the Globe and Mail, 4 March 2019, on the latest investment dispute panel decision in the Clayton-Bilcon case and the fact that these arbitrations are ending under the new NAFTA...
View ArticleInvestment Disputes in a Post-Pandemic World
This article is a summary of the state of investment disputes under the so-called Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) systems in various treaties to which Canada is party. It looks at current...
View ArticleNo Peace in the Trade Valley
Peace in the Trade Valley-FP Comment 13 Aug 2020 This is a comment in the Financial Post, 13 August 2020, explaining how privately-driven trade disputes (like dumping and subsidy complaints) will...
View ArticleKeystone Investment Dispute-Alberta against the U.S. Government
NAFTA Investment Disputes – Alberta versus U.S.
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