MPs Fault Trade Negotiators

The Commons trade committee is faulting negotiators for failing to press Canadian trademark claims in confidential negotiations on a European pact. MPs in a majority report said the treaty must not be ratified without “geographical indicators” to protect Canadian products like Atlantic salmon, Saskatoon berries and Winnipeg goldeye: “Europe’s got a whole bunch and Canada didn’t have one”.

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