Past Event! Note: this event has already taken place.
Canada-EU Comprehensive Trade Agreement
May 12, 2014 at 8:30 AM to 6:30 PM
| Location: | Senate Room, Room 608 Robertson Hall |
| Cost: | Free |
| Key Contact: | Cathleen Schmidt |
| Contact Email: | ces@carleton.ca |
| Contact Phone: | 613-520-2600 ext. 1087 |
Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
Access information on the 2013 CETA Roundtable here.
* Please register below. Space is limited.
This workshop will focus on opportunities and possibilities afforded by the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. The workshop will have two main components: the first part will explore business opportunities, with a particular focus on the interaction of Canadian businesses with Italian and Spanish partners to provide a forum for discussing best practices for maximizing opportunities offered by the trade agreement.
The second part of the workshop will place the CETA in a comparative context and will explore potential broader macro-economic benefits of the agreement, such as impacts on the labour market and youth unemployment issues in Spain and Italy; the role of trade agreements more generally, in Canadian and EU policy; experience with existing trade agreements (e.g., NAFTA, EU-Korea); and the potential impact on Canada of EU trade agreements, and negotiations with the US (TTIP) and Asian partners.
Draft Program (please check back soon for final version)
8:30-9:15 – Introductions
- Joan DeBardeleben (Professor and Director, Centre for European Studies, Carleton University, Canada)
- Her Excellency Marie-Ann Coninsx (Ambassador of the Delegation of the European Union to Canada)
- The Honourable Ed Fast (Minister of International Trade Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada)
9:15-10:45 – Opportunities Offered by the CETA to Business and Labour in Canada and Europe
- Laura Dawson (Dawson Strategic, Ottawa, Canada)
- Carlos J. Moreiro González (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain)
- Umberto Triulzi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
- Moderator: Patrick Leblond (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Canada)
11:00-12:30 – Business Perspectives on CETA
- Tim Reuss (President & CEO, Mercedes-Benz Canada, Germany)
- Geneviève Abbott (Executive Director, Montreal Business Promotion Centre, Generalitat of Catalonia, Spain)
- Claudio Cappellini (Confederation of Craft, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Italy)
- Ailish Campbell (Vice President, Policy, International and Fiscal Issues, Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Ottawa, Canada)
- Moderator: Pietro Merlo (Senior Advisor, Forum of Federations)
12:30-13:30 – Lunch
13:30-15:00 – CETA in the Context of Canadian and EU Trade Strategies
- Robert Wolfe (Professor, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University, Canada)
- Manfred Elsig (Associate Professor and Deputy Managing Director, World Trade Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland)
- Adam Steinhouse (EU consultant and Affiliated Professor, National School of Public Administration (ÉNAP), Montreal, Canada)
- Moderator: Crina Viju (Assistant Professor, Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada)
15:15-16:45 – Lessons and Challenges of and for CETA
- Kyung-Hoon Kim (Research Associate, Samsung Economic Research Institute, Seoul, S. Korea)
- Christopher Sands (Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Washington, DC, USA)
- Kurt Hübner (Professor, European Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada)
- Moderator: David Long (Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada)
16:45-17:15 – Key Take-Aways
- Patrick Leblond (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Canada)
- Crina Viju (Assistant Professor, Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada)
17:15-17:30 – Concluding Remarks
- Rupak Chattopadhyay (President and CEO, Forum of Federations)
This event is supported by Carleton University and by grants from the European Union and from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada (SSHRC). The event is organized by the Centre for European Studies (European Union Centre of Excellence) and the SSHRC-funded Canada-Europe
Transatlantic Dialogue (CETD) in cooperation with the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (Carleton), Sapienza University in Rome, the Forum of Federations and the Embassy of Spain in Canada.
The event is supported, in part, by a grant from the European Union
We have now reached full capacity for this event. Please e-mail ces@carleton.ca if you would like to be added to the waitlist. We look forward to seeing you in our upcoming events.