Discusses Canada's failure to include its provincial governments in its commitments to the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement. Canada is one of the only developed states that has not opened government contracts to international competition. This may be linked to a strong sense of...

This article examines Canada's commitments under the procurement chapter of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) currently awaiting ratification by Canada and the European Union (EU). While the CETA's procurement rules are substantively and procedurally similar to those of the...

This article explores the recent changes to Canada's sub-central government procurement commitments under the World Trade Organization (‘WTO') Agreement on Government Procurement (‘GPA'). As a result of bilateral negotiations between Canada and the US, Canada has finally committed all ten of...

This paper discusses how Canadian regulations prohibition banks from levying charges for the use of automated withdrawal machines may operate as a market access barrier to foreign banks, which could violate the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services. This paper suggests that such charges are...