The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) currently under negotiations between Canada and the European Union is one of the first next generation free trade agreements. In this respect, it seeks to go beyond where other free trade agreements went. CETA will not only reduce tariff barriers but will attempt to tackle issues such as internal barriers to trade, uneasy market access, government procurement. Many scholars have attempted to uncover the special relationship that the policy fields of trade and the environment maintain. As a way to add to this tradition, this study seeks to uncover the dynamics of this relationship when taken in the context of a next generation free trade agreement. Based on interviews with key observers and an analysis of the literature, this thesis suggests that due to the different parties’ current management of environmental protection, CETA could very well be one of the most environmentally friendly free trade agreement to date. / Graduate / 0615 / 0616 / alenoir@uvic.ca

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The thesis deals with the external economic relations between the European Union and Canada. The aim is to analyze the current state of their bilateral partnership - whether the current tools used by the partners nowadays fulfil their potential of 21st century. The thesis also analyzes the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and its prospective impact on a character of the partnership between the EU and Canada as well its impact from a wider, global perspective.

Presented master's thesis deals with comprehensive free trade agreements (CFTA) and deep and comprehensive free trade agreements (DCFTA) concluded or proposed by the European Union. Its objective is to identify necessary conditions for initiation of (D)CFTA negotiation, determine areas covered by (D)CFTAs and contemplate an effect of (D)CFTAs on EU's position. In the first part of master's thesis, theoretical framework needed for research is introduced. The concept of soft power as defined by Joseph Nye is presented. The inductive method is applied to scrutinize comprehensive free trade agreements between the EU and Canada, Colombia, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, and Tunisia, respectively. The research proved that the EU has never started DCFTA negotiation with an authoritarian regime. However, it is not a single condition for initiation of DCFTA negotiation, and four more conditions are defined. A broad scope of (D)CFTAs beyond tariff-related issues is demonstrated. DCFTA and CFTA differ about their relation to EU acquis. Approximation in selected areas is compulsory under DCFTA. Trough CFTAs, the EU was able to uphold EU and international standards and promote fundamental rights. Consequently, the EU's soft power has been enhanced thanks to (D)CFTAs.

For eight years, dancers in the United States performed and taught as employees of the federal government. They were eligible for the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), a Department of Labor program that assisted the unemployed during the recession of the late 1970s. Dance primarily occurred in artistic or leisure contexts, and employing dancers as federal government workers shifted dance to a labor context. CETA dancers performed “public service” in senior centers, hospitals, prisons, public parks, and community centers. Through a combination of archival research, qualitative interviews, and philosophical framing, I address how CETA disrupted public spaces and forced dancers and audiences to reconsider how representation functions in performance. I argue that CETA supported dance as public service while local programs had latitude regarding how they defined dance as public service. Part 1 is entitled Intersections: Dance, Labor, and Public Art and it provides the historical and political context necessary to understand how CETA arts programs came to fruition in the 1970s. It details how CETA arts programs relate to the history of U.S. federal arts funding and labor programs. I highlight how John Kreidler initiated the first CETA arts program in San Francisco, California, and detail the national scope of arts programming. In Part 2 of this dissertation, CETA in the Field: Dancers and Administrators, I focus on case studies from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and New York, New York CETA arts programs to illustrate the range of how dance was conceived and performed as public service. CETA dancers were called upon to produce “public dance” which entailed federal funding, free performances in public spaces, and imagining a public that would comprise their audiences. By acknowledging artists and performers as workers who could perform public service, CETA was instrumental in shifting artists’ identities from rebellious outsiders to service economy laborers who wanted to be part of society. CETA arts programs reenacted Works Progress Administration (WPA) arts programs from the 1930s and adapted these ideas of artists as public servants into the Post-Fordist, service economy of the 1970s United States. CETA dancers became bureaucrats responsible for negotiating their work environments and this entailed a number of administrative duties. While this made it challenging for dancers to manage their basic schedules and material needs, it also allowed for a degree of flexibility, schedule gaps, and opportunities to create new performance and teaching situations. By funding dance as public service, CETA arts programs staged a macroeconomic intervention into the dance field that redefined dance as public service. / Dance

(English) In the field of international law, the negotiated agreement between the EU and the US - TTIP - is a major source of law. In addition, its intended scope should encompass the provisions on investment protection. However, during the course of the bilateral negotiations, there was a leak of information which revealed that the agreement should include provisions of the dispute settlement mechanism that do not differ in its substantial aspects from those which are and have been incorporated into bilateral investment agreements between States. Therefore, in the process of investment disputes initiated under the TTIP agreement, the major influence would have had the provisions of international conventions which set out the rules for the functioning of the International Investment Tribunals - the Convention of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes and the Arbitration Rules of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law. However, given that both the general public and professional circles have long expressed concerns that question the very legitimacy of the international investment arbitration, this fact have been accepted with great disrespect. This was particularly, because of the previous practice of decision-making in the investment disputes, which...

This master's thesis deals with climate policy integration in two European union's trade agreements, EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). Ambitions of EU's climate policy have grown in recent years. Therefore the EU needs to cooperate with other world countries to tackle the climate change now even more than ever before. One of the solutions for such a binding cooperation to fight climate change could be implemented through the EU trade policy. This master's thesis is therefore interested in climate policy integration concerning the policy coherence during the process of making trade agreements and also in climate policy aspects of the final form of the agreements. In the theoretical part, this thesis describes the academic debates of policy coherence, climate policy actors in the institutional framework of the EU and also the history of EU's climate policy. Research operationalises the academic concept of climate policy integration (CPI) and carries it out through analysisand comparison of official EU's institutional documents. In the final part, this master's thesis draws its conclusions mainly from comparison of EPA and CETA.

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Les normes et lignes directrices encadrant la responsabilité sociale des entreprises reçoivent application seulement au moment où les États et entreprises décident de les appliquer. Ce volontarisme est synonyme d’autorégulation. Dans un contexte de mondialisation, les gouvernements ont souhaité accorder de plus en plus de liberté au marché et en ce sens aux grandes entreprises. Afin de faciliter les échanges commerciaux internationaux, les investisseurs directs étrangers bénéficient dorénavant de protections internationales face aux réglementations des pays hôtes, quitte à évincer des considérations essentielles vis-à-vis de la société. Les impacts des multinationales sur la société sont justement encadrés par la RSE dont les organisations internationales posent les balises grâce à des normes et standards internationaux. La prise en compte sur une base volontaire des enjeux de la société sont dorénavant présents dans les accords de libre-échange dit de nouvelle génération comme l’Accord économique et commercial global entre le Canada et l’Union européenne. Les parties sont encouragées à respecter les lignes directrices et principes internationalement reconnus en matière de responsabilité sociale des entreprises. Cependant, ceux-ci souffrent de difficultés inhérentes à leur nature. En ce sens, les multinationales sont souvent à l’abri de sanction contre leurs manquements puisque leurs statuts juridiques restent encore compliqués. Ensuite, l’arbitrage d’investissements apporte aux investisseurs étrangers un pouvoir de contrebalancer leurs obligations. Les pays d’accueil sont soumis à l’attractivité et la concurrence malgré leurs devoirs de respecter des valeurs universelles de la communauté internationale. Ces valeurs universelles de la communauté internationale pourraient englober des enjeux économiques, sociaux, environnementaux afin de réunir les enjeux transversaux du XXIe siècle. / Norms and directives of corporate social responsibility become effective only once countries and corporations decide to implement them. In a context of globalization, governments decided to encourage an increasing freedom to markets and therefore to big corporations. In order to facilitate commercial exchanges, foreign investors benefits from international protection in the face of host countries legislations. Even if it means circumventing essential societal considerations. Corporations’ societal impacts are built upon social responsibility that international organizations have created through international norms and standards. This concern on a voluntarily basis of certain societal issues now appears in so called ‘new generation’ free trade agreement like the European Union-Canada Comprehension Economic Trade Agreement. Parties are encouraged to respect universally recognized guidelines and principles related to corporate social responsibility. These currently suffer from their intrinsic difficulties. Multinational corporations are often sheltered from their breaches (to social responsibility) as their legal statue remain unclear. Furthermore, investment arbitration allows foreign investors to balance their obligations by having a scrutiny right over their host country’s regulations. Those host countries are facing attractiveness and competitiveness challenges despite their obligations to respect the international community’s universally accepted values.