CIAO DATE: 03/2015
December 2014
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
The Canada-China BIT requires Canada to open its economy to Chinese investors, while allowing China to retain a closed economy and to keep discriminating against Canadian investors. The treaty also facilitates confidential settlements and sacrifices a longstanding safeguard for Canada’s aboriginal peoples.
Resource link: Canada's non-reciprocal BIT with China: Would the US or Europe do the same? [PDF] - 245K