Appeared in the Toronto Star on June 28, 2010 as Developing World Opposition Mounts to Anti-Counterfeiting Agreement Just as the G8-G20 meetings conclude in Muskoka and Toronto, another round of negotiations on the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement resumes in Switzerland. In the aftermath of the last round of discussions in […]
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