Locked in: Canadian Trade Policy and the Declining Liberal Order

McBride, Stephen; Fry, Noah

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-04368-0_2

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“…Canada's “Inclusive Trade Agenda” is an attempt to manage this challenge (Canada, 2019). Recent works on Canadian trade policy have observed a double‐down effort by all Canadian jurisdictions to salvage this rules‐based order (Fry, 2023a; McBride and Fry, 2022; Carment, Macdonald, and Paltiel, 2022). Yet, this reclamation project is typified by more expansive rules that narrow the potential for domestic social adjustment programs.…”

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Canadian Crown corporations and social procurement: Trade commitments and institutional bricolage

Fry

2024

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Globalization has introduced insecurities to individuals and businesses. Countries are pressed to respond to these insecurities with more inclusive visions of globalization. One policy response is social procurement—public purchasing geared to create social value. Canada is embracing this response but faces barriers of its own making. Through the institutional bricolage of procurement trade rules, Canada has constrained its capacity to use social procurement. This is acutely felt by Crown corporations, which are increasingly under the scope of trade treaties. This article details this phenomenon through textual analysis of Canadian procurement trade rules and state enterprise attempts at social procurement.

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confidence: 99%