SBS quoted Kurt Huebner, a professor at UBC’s Institute for European Studies, for a story on protests over proposed trans-Atlantic trade deals between the EU and the U.S. and Canada.
Huebner said there are still many areas of contention about the proposed trade deals, such as how government agencies should operate and attitudes around food safety.
“There are different philosophies to things like genetically modified food. On one side we see a situation in Europe where not only damage needs to be caused in order to intervene, but in the European case, producers have to showcase that a product or services are safe for consumers. It’s exactly the opposite attitude with the United States of America,” he said.
