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Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA)
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The CFTA includes chapters on Government Procurement, Environmental Protection and Labour Mobility that, among other things, promote open procurement practices, recognize that environmental protection and trade can be mutually supportive, and eliminate or reduce measures that restrict or impair labour mobility within Canada.

(...)The Canadian Agricultural Partnership continues to position Canada as a world leader in quality food, innovation and environmentally responsible agriculture production.(...)

Canada's Enhanced Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Strategy
The Strategy articulates Canada's expectation that all Canadian firms operating abroad respect all applicable laws, operate transparently, consult with host governments, and implement internationally-recognized CSR best practices. (...)This strategy complements trade diversification efforts and other Government of Canada policies, including those related to developing countries, the environment, gender equality, labour and transparency.

The Clean Growth Hub
In 2018, Canada launched the Clean Growth Hub, which is a new service model that co locates representatives from different federal departments and agencies whose mandates are advanced by the adoption, innovation, and export of clean technology. This whole-of-government initiative serves as a focal point in supporting clean technology companies and projects. The Clean Growth Hub has helped over 780 clients in its first year of operation to identify the federal programmes and services most relevant to their needs, including support to exporters.

(...)Domestically, Canada is: seeking to put more Canadians at the heart of trade policy through broader consultations and transparency; and, expanding access for Canadians through inclusive content in trade agreements. For example, while labour and environmental provisions have formed an integral part of many of Canada's FTAs since NAFTA, Canada has deepened these provisions in more recent agreements such as CPTPP, including by subjecting such provisions to the dispute-settlement mechanism of the Agreement. (...)

Canada is committed to ensuring mutual supportiveness between trade and environmental protection objectives and policies, including ensuring that trade partners do not lower environmental standards to promote trade or attract investment. Canada's current approach in its FTAs consists of seeking a dedicated Environment chapter with core commitments for Parties to maintain robust environmental governance. Canada also seeks to address key global environmental challenges in its FTAs through substantive commitments in a wide range of areas, including sustainable trade in fish and forest products; illegal logging and illegal wildlife trade; and, conservation of species at risk.

The CPTPP is Canada's first FTA to include an Environment chapter that establishes a binding and enforceable dispute resolution process to address compliance. The CPTPP also includes substantive commitments on an expanding range of environmental issues, such as illegal wildlife trade and illegal logging, sustainable fisheries management, species at risk, conservation of biological diversity, ozone-depleting substances, marine pollution, and working together to address climate change and combat invasive alien species.

Domestically, Canada also examines the links between trade and environmental protection, by undertaking mandatory Environmental Assessments to evaluate the environmental impact of its trade negotiations and agreements. Conducting Environmental Assessments ensures mutually supportive trade and environmental outcomes, in accordance with the Cabinet Directive on the Environmental Assessment of Policy, Plan and Program Proposals. Environmental Assessments are consulted fully throughout the negotiation and implementation phases with a working group consisting of leading Canadian academic and non-governmental experts.

(...)Canada is also committed to pursuing provisions in its trade agreements in areas including labour rights, the environment, SMEs, gender equality, and to increase opportunity for Indigenous peoples.

During the review period, according to the authorities, Canada's trade policy was focused on diversifying international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI), and on pursuing an inclusive approach to trade, focused on transparency, labour rights, the environment, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), gender, and Indigenous peoples. (...)