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Canada Gazette - Official Regulations

March 31, 2017

The following was published in Part II of the Canada Gazette on March 8, 2017.

Domestic Substances List — Order 2017-87-02-01 Amending Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 
SOR/2017-24 
21/02/17

For Canada, all hands on deck during NAFTA renegotiations

March 31, 2017

The rules of the road for trade with our biggest trading partner are about to be renegotiated. We need an all-of-Canada effort to get ready.

The stakes are critical: Three-quarters of our exports head south to the United States. Trade with the United States represents almost a third of our GDP and it sustains close to one in five Canadian jobs.

US Congress urges get-tough approach with Canada in hearing for Trump trade pick

March 31, 2017

In a possible preview of upcoming NAFTA negotiations, U.S. lawmakers ... urged a get-tough approach with Canada in several areas, including the supply-management systems that limit imports of poultry and dairy.

The CFIA Chronicle - Keeping our stakeholders updated

March 31, 2017

With a new year ahead of us and new approaches rolling out for Canadian Food inspection Agency (CFIA) services, inspection, regulation and risk management, the Agency is launching its first external facing digital newsletter, The CFIA Chronicle. The newsletter aims to keep industry informed as we continuously modernize to improve our operations.

TPP summit a critical moment for Canada’s Asian trade ambitions

March 31, 2017

...meeting in Chile of signatories to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement is the first major global response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s “America First” trade agenda, announced most forcefully by his withdrawal of the United States from the TPP.

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