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Canada and the International Trading System: Refocusing the Agenda

Date: 
Thursday, March 4, 2010 (All day) - Friday, March 5, 2010 (All day)

 

An intensive two-day workshop, this course will provide one-on-one interaction with two of Canada's leading trade policy practitioners. The program will cover:

  • Essential Mechanics of the International Trading System
  • World Trade Organization Doha Round of Negotiations
  • Canada-US Trade Issues

This course will help government officials who are relatively new to trade to put the complex web of issues facing Canada into context. For those with more experience, this is an ideal opportunity to get beyond the basics and gain important insight into how your organization's interests fit into the bigger picture. Based on several years' experience providing trade policy training to federal government departments in Canada and around the world, this course distills key issues and approaches into an intensive two-day session. Because of the small class size, participants will have a greater opportunity to explore their interests and concerns through direct dialogue with trade policy experts.

Presenters:

What you will receive:

  • Two days of intensive discussion, debate, and case studies on pertinent trade law and negotiation issues
  • Detailed course manual, readings, and texts.

Registration Information:

  1. Registration Form. The registration form will be available when the course date is confirmed.
  2. Cost is $1,250 per person plus GST of $62.50 (total $1,312.50). Registration cost can be invoiced. Cheques should be made payable to Carleton University - CTPL.
  3. Confirmation will be sent out via e-mail or fax once the registration form is received.
  4. Cancellation Policy: In case of cancellation up to one week before the course date, the participant will be charged 25% of the tuition fee. In case of cancellation within the week prior to the course date (but not including the last workday before the course), the participant will be charged 50% of the tuition fee. Full tuition will apply for cancellations on or after the last workday prior to the start of the course.
Speaker Information: 

William A. Dymond is the Senior Executive Fellow of the Centre for Trade Policy and Law. Prior to joining the Centre in 2000, Mr. Dymond was the Director-General of the Policy Planning Secretariat in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. His other appointments included Chief Air Negotiator for Canada, Chief Negotiator for Canada for the OECD Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), and Senior Advisor to the Trade Negotiations Office for the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement. Mr. Dymond also served as Ambassador to Brazil, Minister-Counsellor in the Canadian Embassy in Washington, Minister-Counsellor in the Canadian Mission to the European Union in Brussels, and First Secretary in the Canadian Mission to the United Nations, Geneva.

Mr. Dymond's publications include: "Core Labour Standards and the World Trade Organization: Labour's Love Lost," in Canadian Foreign Policy, Volume 8, No.3 (Spring 2001), 99-114. "The MAI: A Sad and Melancholy Tale." in A Big League Player? Canada Among Nations, Oxford University Press, 1999; co-author of: Decision at Midnight, University of British Columbia Press, 1994; "Sisyphus Ascendant? Brazil and the 21st Century," in Canadian Foreign Policy, 1997; "Globalization and the Negotiation of International Investment Rules in a post-MAI World", Canadian Foreign Policy, Winter 2000; "Post-Modern Trade Policy: Reflections on the Challenges to Multilateral Trade Negotiations after Seattle", Journal of World Trade, June 2000; "Abundant Paradox: The Trade and Culture Debate," November 2001, available on CTPL Web site (www.carleton.ca/ctpl); "NAFTA Chapter 11: Precedents, Principles, and Prospects," March 2002, also available on Web site; "Special and Differential Treatment in the Doha Development Round", Journal of World Trade 37(2)395-414, 2003; "The Potemkin Village of Canadian Foreign Policy," Policy Options December 2003-January 2004, "Canadian Trade Policy at the Crossroads" (Policy Options, February 2004); and "The Doha Investment Negotiations: Whither or Wither," Journal of World Trade (Spring 2004).