The new NAFTA – dubbed the USMCA or CUSMA depending on where you live – took a significant step forward recently with the introduction of Canadian legislation designed to ratify the treaty. The economic implications of the agreement are enormous, particularly with respect to digital issues and intellectual property. Myra Tawfik, a law professor at the University of Windsor and Senior Fellow with CIGI, joins the podcast this week to discuss Canada’s longstanding history of facing external pressure on copyright, the role that trade negotiations now play with that pressure, and the implications of the USMCA.

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Episode Notes:

Canada Introduces USMCA Implementation Bill…Without a Copyright Term Extension Provision

Credits:

CBC News, Canada Introduces NAFTA 2.0 Implementation Bill

CNBC, Trump: Trade Deal Protects Patents, Intellectual Property

Globe and Mail, Flashback: President Clinton’s Original Signing of NAFTA Into Law in 1993

CNBC, Key Differences Between the New USMCA Trade Deal and NAFTA

Transcript:

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Michael Geist:

This is Law Bytes, a podcast with Michael Geist.

CBC News:

Signed sealed and now delivered to the House of Commons. Just last hour the Federal Government tabled a bill to implement the new NAFTA a deal that Canada the US and Mexico reached six months ago after 15 months of negotiations.