Overview

The Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement currently being negotiated between Canada and the EU provides a unique opportunity for Europe to expand its access to Canadian markets and vice versa, and will take the broadest approach to labour mobility of any multilateral trade agreement to which Canada has been a party.

This paper from Baker & McKenzie explores some of those fundamental changes, examining mobility from an EU perspective and providing a snapshot of the environment of EU nationals and those coming to work in the EU from abroad. It also features a chart that summarises the most commonly used entry categories for the five largest countries within the Union, as a reference tool for companies thinking of sending employees to those countries.

The second section of the paper considers recent changes to mobility within Canada, and looks at how the Agreement on Internal Trade has liberalised the recognition of credentials and movement of workers within the Canadian Federation, and how it is serving to dismantle existing barriers to provincial labour markets.