Everyone calls it the Canada-EU trade deal, but in almost every way, European opposition to CETA really isn't about Canada at all. "Of course there are no hostile feelings against Canada in Belgium, especially not in French-speaking Wallonia," says political scholar Marc Hooghe from Belgium's ancient university town of Leuven. But to send our child to school in French we had to live south of the linguistic dotted line near Lovain-la-Neuve, the newly built French-speaking university town. Wallonia was left with strong trade unions and high unemployment, says Canadian scholar Daniel Béland, who has studied Belgian federalism. But it's also about the coming U.S.-Europe trade deal.

Source: CBC News October 24, 2016 09:00 UTC