USMCA (NAFTA 2.0): tightening the constraints on the right to regulate for public health.
Ronald LabonteEric CrosbieDeborah GleesonCourtney McNamaraPublished in: Globalization and health (2019)
Rather than enhancing public health protection the USMCA places new, extended, and enforceable obligations on public regulators that increase the power (voice) of corporate (investor) interests during the development of new regulations. It is not a health-enhancing template for future trade agreements that governments should emulate.