More diverse trade partners the better.
And embedding labour requirements is important.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tpp-apec-summit-talks-1.4396984
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I do agree on more diverse trade partners (in general, not just in the wake of Trump threatening to tear up NAFTA). BUT TPP also made provision for closed court investor class lawsuits if a country's evolving legislation limited or impacted their profits. So if Canada decides to protect it's environment, or charge higher carbon taxes etc, companies could sue for compensation behind closed doors 😓 tax payers footing the bill and no publication of the settlements.. not a good idea to remove transparency..
ReplyDeleteReducing trade barriers is one thing, but trade treaties of recent decades have given corporations control of what is supposed to be public policy matters of individual nations. Corporations become autocratic governments under these massive treaties. 10 corporations running the resource extraction, manufacturing and finance of the world -- is that really diversity?
ReplyDeleteBrian Arbenz They've been trying to sneak this one through the "back door" for over 5 years...I guess they were hoping we'd forgotten what a POS it was.
ReplyDeleteFTA, NAFTA, GATT, FTA of the Americas. I've opposed them all, doing what I can as as writer, activist and citizen. We held a protest on the sidewalk with a person dressed up as "GATT-zilla" shouting, "I eat countries! I eat economies!" to show the dangers of GATT. The corporations say, fine, let them have their sidewalk shows, we'll ram it all through in secret.
ReplyDeleteRex Dexter Looks like they didn't have to even sneak this one through. Just had to prod Trudeau about the potential NAFTA tear-up and he stepped in line no question. Man I'm disappointed.
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