Canadian Tar Sands: CETA may force the EU to accept this dirty fossil fuel. Image: Greenpeace.
It is one of a 'new generation' of trade deals agreed in secretive negotiations around the world. It has been described as the 'ugly brother' of TTIP, the EU-US trade deal, and the 'most ambitious' trade agreement that the EU has concluded. And the European Parliament is voting on it today.
The EU/Canada trade deal threatens to put corporate interests over many things that we in Britain take for granted. The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement – to give it its official name – risks our food standards, undermines our rights at work, and fails to adequately protect the environment or bolster efforts to stop runaway climate change.
