Policy Workshop
A Canada-EU Free Trade Agreement: Public Good or Private Interest
October 28, 2010
8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Senate Room, Robertson Hall
Carleton University
Workshop Program and Biographies of Speakers
Interviews with Speakers and Presentation Slides
Below you will also find commentaries on conference presentations:
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Kurt Huebner, is professor of European studies and director at the Institute for European Studies at UBC. Central to Hübner’s research are topics of global and European currency regimes, international regimes of foreign direct investment, and the relations between innovation and sustainability. His latest research focuses on the economic and socio-political foundations of technical innovations in a transatlantic perspective. Currently he is working on a project on currency competition and currency co-operation, which analyses the relations between the U.S. Dollar, the Euro and the Japanese Yen. He holds the Jean Monnet Chair on European Integration and Global Political Economy and the Chair in German and European Studies. His book on ‘Europe, Canada and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement’ will be published early in 2011 by Routledge. |
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Peter Julian, MP (Burnaby-New Westminster) and NDP Critic on International Trade and Globalization. A former manual labourer, Peter returned to school later and became a financial administrator. Organizations that he led won consecutive Excellence in Business awards. Peter has been a strong critic of the dysfunctional trade architecture and Canada’s trade policies. He oppposed the softwood lumber agreement unsuccesfully; the SPP in campaign with activists across the country succesfully and working with civil society activists and the labour movement was able to pioneer a new approach on trade legislation through combined oppostion to the Canada-Colombia trade deal. |
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Fred Kingston, Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1956. Graduated in Arts (Philosophy) from the University of Toronto in 1978 and Law from the University of Windsor in 1981. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1983. After working briefly as a lawyer in Toronto, did graduate studies in Europe, obtaining an LL.M. from the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Free University of Brussels) in 1984 and a Diploma in Advanced European Studies (Law) at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium in 1985. Since 1986 has been employed by the Delegation of the European Commission to Canada in its Economic and Commercial Affairs Section. Responsibilities include analyzing and reporting on developments in trade and investment policy, on trade-related matters, agriculture, food safety and fisheries, both bilaterally and multilaterally, affecting EU-Canada relations. From 1998 to 2008 was also Chairman of the Standing Committee on Finance and Administration of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO). |
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Scott Sinclair, is a senior researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, where he directs the centre’s Trade and Investment Research Project. Scott has written widely on trade policy, including Facing the Facts: A Guide to the GATS Debate (with Jim Grieshaber-Otto); and Putting Health First: Canadian Health Care Reform, Trade Treaties and Foreign Policy (with Matthew Sanger), a background study for the Romanow Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada. In April 2010, he published Negotiating From Weakness: How the Canada-EU Trade Treaty Threatens Canadian Purchasing Policies and Public Services. Prior to joining CCPA, Scott was a senior trade policy advisor with the Government of British Columbia. He lives in Prince Edward Island. |
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Larry Brown, is President of the CCPA. He is also Secretary-Treasurer of the National Union of Public and General Employees since 1986. He holds political science and law degrees from the University of Saskatchewan which he has put to use as chair of PSI’s Public Sector Working Group and the National Union’s Pensions Committee where he is leading the push to expand unions’ control of members’ pension funds in order to better the condition of workers through ethical screening, shareholder activism and social investment. He has written and spoken extensively about public finances, debt and deficit issues, changes in federal provincial financing, public sector restructuring and changes in the economic and political structures of Canada. |
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David Long, is Professor of International Affairs in the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. Professor Long has published widely on the history of international relations theory as well as on the European Union and transatlantic relations. His current research interests include the EU’s foreign and security policy and also the development of the EU’s policy on outer space. He is also working on the concept of interdisciplinary and the early stages of the institutionalization of International Relations as an academic discipline. Professor Long teaches courses International Relations in Europe, Ethics in International Affairs, Gender in International Affairs, and International Relations Theory |
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Louis Thériault, joined the Conference Board of Canada in 1997 where he specializes in product development and macro and micro economic analysis. Louis joined The Conference Board to launch the Metropolitan Outlook Service including a quarterly economic forecast for large Canadian urban centres. Louis is currently Director of the International Trade and Investment Center, which provides Canadian business leaders and policy-makers with forward-looking analysis related to the implications of ongoing restructuring of global production. He is also a primary contact for contracts with external clients. He is an expert in health economics modeling and forecasting and has been involved in numerous partnership projects that require databasing and model simulation expertise. In addition, he is a speaker and a media spokesperson on topics related to international trade and investment and the Canadian economy. |
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Jim Standford, is an Economist with the Canadian Auto Workers, Canada’s largest private-sector trade union. He received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1995 from the New School for Social Research in New York, and also holds economics degrees from Cambridge University and the University of Calgary. Jim is the author of Paper Boom (published in 1999) and author of Economics for Everyone (Pluto Press and Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2008). In 2007 he was appointed vice-chair of the Ontario Manufacturing Council. Jim writes a regular economics column for the Globe and Mail, and lives in Toronto with his partner and two daughters. |
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Canada-Europe Transatlantic Dialogue scholar Patrick Leblond responds to Jim Stanford’s report:
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Teresa Healey, earned her doctorate in Political Science from Carleton University in 1999. She specializes in North American integration, labour, and public sector issues. Before coming to the Canadian Labour Congress as Senior Researcher, Healy worked in the Research Branch at the Canadian Union of Public Employees. Prior to working in the labour movement, Teresa held academic posts as Assistant Professor of International Relations at Wilfred Laurier University and Lecturer in International Political Economy at Trent University. Currently, Teresa is involved in ongoing research on the Canada- EU CETA negotiations, Canadian Communities in Crisis, North American integration, as well as health care privatization. Teresa Healy’s book, Gendered Struggles against Globalisation in Mexico was published by Ashgate Publishing in 2008. Her edited collection, The Harper Record , was published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, also in 2008. She is also a recording singer-songwriter. |
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Janet Eaton, PhD, has taught at several Nova Scotian universities including Dalhousie, St. Mary’s, Mount Saint Vincent and most recently at Acadia where she offered courses on “Critical Perspectives on Globalization”, “Environment and Sustainable Society”, and “Community Political Power”. From an early career as a marine biologist, she went on to work in the fields of adult and community education; systemic change [becoming a fellow of the International Systems Institute in the mid- 1990s] ; as a consultant to government and NGO’s on systemic change; and since 1999 has been a part of the ‘global democracy movement’. She is the Sierra Club of Canada’s Trade and the Environment representative and a member of the Canadian Trade Justice Network. In her unending quest for “another possible world”, Janet is presently working on a book: “Unmasking the Myths of Globalization: Reframing and Redesigning Our World” which combines a life time of learning, research, teaching and action. |
For information about the workshop please contact
Helen Morris at helen_morris@carleton.ca
