The Collapse of Global Trade?

In a G20 world, is Canada well-positioned to assert itself as a global trade leader?

Guests:

Sallie James is a trade policy analyst with the Cato Institute. James writes and speaks on a variety of trade topics, with a research emphasis on the subject of agricultural trade policy.

Chad Bown is a senior economist at The World Bank. His research spans the economics of international trade laws and institutions, trade policy negotiations, and trade frictions.

Andrew Jackson is National Director of Social and Economic Policy with the Canadian Labour Congress.

Erin Weir is an economist with the United Steelworkers union. He has also worked for the Canadian Labour Congress, Government of Canada, and Government of Saskatchewan. He completed degrees at the University of Regina, University of Calgary, and Queens University. Erins publications on international trade include Lies, Damned Lies and Trade Statistics, Canadian-American Public Policy Paper No. 63, University of Maine (July 2005) and Canadas Free-Trade Agreements with the USA and Mexico, in International Trade and Neoliberal Globalism (London and New York: Routledge, 2008). His commentary on trade and other economic issues is available at The Progressive Economics Forum.

Milos Barutciski is a trade lawyer and Partner at Bennett Jones LLP, specializing in the areas of international trade, investment and competition law, and other aspects of economic regulation and compliance.