In a striking diplomatic disclosure on Capitol Hill today, Canada’s envoy to the European Union revealed that EU negotiators secretly stripped explicit language committing member states to ratify the decade-old Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement from their joint summit declaration. Testifying before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee in Ottawa, Ambassador Jonathan Wilkinson confirmed that Brussels deliberately excised the ratification clause right before the final text was issued at the conclusion of the high-level summit in Montreal. The disclosure shocked lawmake