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Source: Trade Law
Link: Woods, LaFortune LLP to Attend CETA Civil Society Forum
Woods, LaFortune LLP has been invited by the Trade Agreements Secretariat at Global Affairs Canada to participate in the Civil Society Forum on Trade and Sustainable Development under the Canada-European Union (EU) Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). Michael Woods will attend on behalf of the firm. The event is to take place in Ottawa on November 12, 2019.
The Forum is facilitated jointly by the Government of Canada and the European Union and include representatives from employers, unions, labour and business organizations, environmental groups, Indigenous organizations, and other relevant civil society organizations, to exchange with one another, with members of the EU civil society, as well as officials of the Government of Canada and the European Commission, on matters related to the implementation of the CETA with regards to Trade and Sustainable Development, Trade and Labour and Trade and Environment. This will be the second edition of the Forum – the first Civil Society Forum on Trade and Sustainable Development under CETA took place in September 2018, in Brussels, Belgium.