Canadian trade negotiations in an era of deep integration /

CETA did the provincial role in setting and approving the Canadian not represent the first or even the second time that the mandate, the extent of consultation and information government of Canada entered into negotiations with sharing, whether provinces would be ‘at the table’ or ‘in the Europe. [...] The Federal government interests and existing powers in any trade agreement signed not only consulted the provinces extensively before each between the Government of Canada and the European round of negotiation, but the provincial governments were Union” came before Toronto’s city council with a motion also represented in the Canadian delegation” (ibid., 27). [...] Kukucha (2011, 134) hastens to add, however, that and-mortar institution of the WTO; the rise of China as “these developments do not represent a change in the a big trader (Wolfe 2015); the evolving centrality of the ‘culture’ of federal-provincial engagement in matters of multilateral system (Pauwelyn 2008); and the increasing trade policy.” He suggests that it might be a question of importance o [...] The role that the provinces and extensive participation by the provinces in CETA, will play is necessarily enhanced due to the changes in the Fafard and Leblond (2012, 4) argue that “when it comes trading system outlined above. [...] Some scholars have explored the prospect of of the provinces and territories to trade negotiations introducing new instruments to shift the relationship generally, and not of their direct involvement in between the federal and provincial/territorial authorities.