ALENA | ACEUM

Accord de libre-échange nord-américain | Accord entre le Canada, les États-Unis et le Mexique

SUNS | 21-oct-2015

There are many lessons from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that are relevant to the current debate over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

Mots-clés: ALENA | ACEUM , Canada , CPTPP , États-Unis d’Amérique , litiges investisseurs-état | ISDS, Mexique

Corporate rights in trade agreements : Attacking the environment and community values

Sierra Club | 18-oct-2015

A private trade tribunal ruled that Canada violated rules in NAFTA because of an environmental impact assessment that led Canada to reject a company’s controversial mining project from moving forward in an important cultural and ecological area in Nova Scotia.

Mots-clés: ALENA | ACEUM , Canada , environnement, États-Unis d’Amérique , litiges investisseurs-état | ISDS, mines

Legendary Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens is suing Ontario for $700 million over wind power

Financial Post | 16-oct-2015

Pickens is using his rights under the North American Free Trade Agreement to bring claims against the Canadian province of Ontario.

Mots-clés: ALENA | ACEUM , Canada , énergie , États-Unis d’Amérique , litiges investisseurs-état | ISDS

Murray Rankin v. Canada

Focus Online | 30-sep-2015

Rankin acted on behalf of an American mining corporation in its successful bid to sue Canada using NAFTA.

Mots-clés: ALENA | ACEUM , Canada , litiges investisseurs-état | ISDS, mines

Trans-Pacific Partnership : Renegotiating NAFTA by the back door

rabble.ca | 23-sep-2015

For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to address some of the deal’s most damaging features : for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor-state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent-wide strategy for auto investment and production.

Mots-clés: ALENA | ACEUM , Canada , CPTPP , litiges investisseurs-état | ISDS, travail | droits des travailleurs

Resisting the ‘law of greed’

Green Agenda | 11-sep-2015

There has been an explosive increase of cases of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). Modern investor-state disputes often revolve around public policy measures and implicate sensitive issues such as health and environmental protection

Mots-clés: ALENA | ACEUM , CPTPP , litiges investisseurs-état | ISDS, TCE , TTIP

Feds appealing NAFTA tribunal decision of Nova Scotia quarry project

CBC | 20-aoû-2015

Canada is appealing a potentially expensive decision from a NAFTA tribunal, arguing the tribunal "exceeded its jurisdiction" when it upheld a claim from a New Jersey concrete company, Bilcon, that it was entitled to compensatory damages.

Mots-clés: ALENA | ACEUM , Canada , litiges investisseurs-état | ISDS

As decision in Mesa v. Canada looms, investor and all three NAFTA parties weigh in on significance of Bilcon

Investment Arbitration Reporter | 15-aoû-2015

Following Canada’s loss this March in a NAFTA dispute, Bilcon v. Canada, that decision has prompted a new round of submissions in a separate dispute, Mesa Power Group LLC v. Canada.

Mots-clés: ALENA | ACEUM , Canada , litiges investisseurs-état | ISDS