Feds could be challenged on international trade laws if it invests in Bombardier

While it is common for governments to pour money into these goliath companies, trade disputes follow, said Debra Steger.

Debra Steger, a professor of law at the University of Ottawa, who worked at the WTO for 20 years and is a senior fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation. Dane Rowlands, director of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. Photograph courtesy Adrian Pingstone

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BY DENIS CALNAN

February 29, 2016

If the federal government is to follow its provincial colleagues in Quebec and aide Bombardier by investing in the company, it will have some international trade laws to maneouvre around, and will likely be challenged, as it has in the past, say some experts. The Canadian government has been facing...

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