Mr. Pierre Marc Johnson, G.O.Q., FRSC, counsel at Lavery, acted as guest speaker at the dinner-meeting of the Lord Reading Law Society that was held on April 29, 2014. He was introduced before an audience of more than 100 people by Carl M. Ravinsky, a Business Law partner at Lavery. Entitled “Canada-EU: The CETA – A Long-awaited and Promising Agreement”, Mr. Johnson’s conference focused on the main issues raised by the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the European Union. Mr. Johnson is the chief negotiator of CETA for the Government of Quebec.