Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Bilateral Relationship between Canada and Ireland: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Alice-Mary HigginsAlice-Mary Higgins (Independent)

CETA allows for the enforcement of the rules as well - it is not as well, we should perhaps clarify - between Canada and Europe. This is for private corporations and private companies to take cases against countries. In that context, it is clear in CETA that they can choose where they want to take that case. Is it not the case they can choose to take those cases under the ISDS, including under the current US courts such as the World Bank court and ISDS investor-state mechanisms? In many cases where companies do that, they do that because the rulings and potential moneys involved are massive. They deal with future, unearned profit that arises as a result of a decision that has affected them in a way the company argues is unfair. Is it not the case that is something open to companies under these court mechanisms?

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