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Canada to rejoin United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

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Canada has formally delivered its documentation to re-accede to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), further demonstrating its commitment to joining world action to slow land degradation and desertification and to mitigate the effects of drought.


Canada ratifies WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation

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Canada took an important step today in its progressive trade agenda by ratifying the WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation (TFA). Canada is committed to a collaborative approach as we promote trade and investment.


Canada, a leader in progressive dispute-resolution mechanisms for international trade

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Trade means more growth, and more growth means more middle class jobs. As part of its continued leadership promoting transparency in international trade, Canada is co-hosting, together with the European Union, a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, this week, on the development of a new international standard for resolving investment disputes.


Canada ratifies United Nations convention on transparency in investor-state arbitration

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Canada is a world leader in promoting transparency in international trade and in working to maintain support for open trade. The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of International Trade, today announced that Canada has ratified the United Nations Convention on Transparency in Treaty-Based Investor-State Arbitration, also known as the Mauritius Convention on Transparency.


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2017-05-26