Gordon Ritchie

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  Published on: 6/18/2009    Last Visited: 6/24/2009  

  Nobody knows this history better than Gordon Ritchie. As ambassador for trade negotiations, Ritchie was a key player in the making of the 1989 Canada-U.S. free trade deal. As chairman of Hill & Knowlton's public affairs practice in Canada since 1999, he remains a sought-after expert on trade and economic issues. Ritchie spoke to Maclean's about how Canada left itself vulnerable. Continue...

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  Published on: 2/18/2009    Last Visited: 9/19/2009  

  Gordon Ritchie, Principal Advisor, Hill & Knowlton

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  Published on: 8/20/2008    Last Visited: 8/20/2008  

  The Canadian Film and Television Production Association announced today that Gordon Ritchie, one of the principle architects of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement, has joined its negotiating team to secure fairer deals for program rights from the major private over-the-air television networks, as well as CBC.
  
  "On the eve of commencing historic terms of trade negotiations, we are very pleased to announce that Gordon Ritchie has joined the CFTPA negotiating team," said CFTPA Chair Sandra Cunningham.
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  Ritchie's appointment by the CFTPA signals the increasing importance that the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has placed on broadcasters and independent producers reaching agreement on so-called "terms of trade" - framework agreements aimed at defining and valuing program rights, including new media rights, for platforms such as broadband and mobile.
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  "This concentrated broadcaster decision-making power is one of the main reasons why we're so thrilled that Gordon has agreed to join our negotiating team.Anyone familiar with the history of the Free Trade Agreement knows that Gordon is used to representing the underdog in very high stakes negotiations.

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  Published on: 7/22/2008    Last Visited: 9/19/2009  

  Last week, the CFTPA announced that Gordon Ritchie, one of the principal architects of the Free Trade Agreement, had joined their negotiating team. His appointment reflects the high stakes with which independent producers view the upcoming negotiations.

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  Last week, the CFTPA announced that Gordon Ritchie, one of the principal architects of the Free Trade Agreement, had joined their negotiating team.His appointment reflects the high stakes with which independent producers view the upcoming negotiations.

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  Published on: 7/18/2008    Last Visited: 7/18/2008  

  Production Association announced today that Gordon Ritchie, one of the principle architects of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement, has joined its negotiating team to secure fairer deals for program rights from the majorprivate over-the-air television networks, as well as CBC.
  
  "On the eve of commencing historic terms of trade negotiations, we are very pleased to announce that Gordon Ritchie has joined the CFTPA negotiating team," said CFTPA Chair Sandra Cunningham.
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  Ritchie's appointment by the CFTPA signals the increasing importance that the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has placed on broadcasters and independent producers reaching agreement on so-called "terms of trade" - framework agreements aimed at defining and valuing program rights, including new media rights, for platforms such asbroadband and mobile.
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  "This concentrated broadcaster decision-making power is one of the main reasons why we're so thrilled that Gordon has agreedto join our negotiating team.Anyone familiar with the history of the Free Trade Agreement knows that Gordon is used to representing the underdog in very high stakes negotiations.

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  CJAD 800 : News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/15/2005    Last Visited: 12/15/2005  

  Gordon Ritchie, a top negotiator on both free trade deals, was equally scathing.
  
  "This isn't nationalism," Ritchie said in an interview."This is cheap jingoism."
  
  Ritchie has been known to criticize the Bush administration itself.Last August, he accused the U.S. of "an egregious, shocking, dishonourable breach of their obligations" for ignoring a tribunal ruling that it had no right to impose tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber.
  
  It's one thing to stand up for Canadian interests when there is a legitimate beef, but another entirely to hector the Americans on climate change when the U.S. record on reducing greenhouse gas emissions is actually better than Canada's, Ritchie said.
  
  "It's the old sanctimonious Canadian thing . . . that's embarrassing, thoroughly embarrassing," he said."It's purely for domestic political consumption."
  
  Martin levelled his criticism of U.S. President George W. Bush's environmental stance at a United Nations climate change conference last week in Montreal.
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  Both Hart and Ritchie agree it's unlikely the spat will have any direct economic repercussions and they say the flow of trade across the border will likely continue unabated.
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  Still, Ritchie and Hart said Wilkins's public rebuke of Martin was a miscalculation that only managed to turn Canada-U.S. relations into even more of a political football.

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  Published on: 7/4/2004    Last Visited: 4/5/2005  

  Ottawa, Ontario, March 24, 2005 , International Trade Minister Jim Peterson today announced that Paul M. Tellier and Gordon Ritchie have joined Canada's softwood lumber negotiating team as senior advisers to the Minister.

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  Canadian clothiers have NAFTA up their sleeve - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/23/2002    Last Visited: 3/23/2002  

  This gave Canadian woolen-suit makers "a free run at the American market far beyond their wildest dreams," according to Gordon Ritchie, Canada's chief NAFTA negotiator.
  
  Little impact was felt at first, but by the late 1990s, U.S. manufacturers were starting to worry.The Tailored Clothing Association, an American manufacturers' lobbying group formed in 1999, estimates that the volume of men's woolen suits, jackets and pants entering the country from Mexico and Canada almost doubled between 1995 and 2000, and the two NAFTA countries are now America's No. 2 and No. 3 sources of imported pants and suits, after Italy.Most recently, the Canadians have begun cranking up exports of men's shirts.
  
  U.S. production of woolen suits, jackets and pants has fallen by more than 20 percent since 1995, and casualties have been mounting.

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  Lumber Industry News Express - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/28/2005    Last Visited: 10/11/2009  

  During the second day of talks, Canada named two "big guns" to its negotiating team: Former Bombardier chief Paul Tellier and Gordon Ritchie, one of the principal architects of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, will join the team as senior advisers to the trade minister, Jim Peterson.

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