28 Mar 2018 --- A new study has found that the 1989 Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA) was associated with an increase in caloric availability of approximately 170 kilocalories per person per day in Canada. These findings, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, suggest that the rise obesity in Canada since the early 1990s can be partially attributed to its close trade and investment arrangements with the US.
