Israel and Tribe: How NAFTA 2.0 signed away our digital future

As Canada claims victory for salvaging North American free trade, the true cost of capitulating to the United States’ blustering may be too high to warrant celebration. The long-term harms to digital rights and innovation policy that will flow from NAFTA 2.0 – officially the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) – are difficult to fully predict but unquestionably serious.
Setting digital policy in trade agreements is a bad idea. Agreements develop in a highly secretive