By Sujata Dey Berlin — Yesterday (April 20, 2015), Maude Barlow, national chairperson of the Council of Canadians, challenged the Canada-European Union Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) and other trade deals in a panel discussion with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. During the panel, Chancellor Merkel presented her G7 presidency priorities. “While the themes […]
Arising out of: 2015-04-15 A Trade Rule that Makes It Illegal to Favor Local Business? Newest Leak Shows TPP Would Do That And More, David Korten, Yes! Magazine I remind Canadians of how much we are already paying out to Corporations for fines under NAFTA. One example: 2015-03-06 We Canadians get to gift Exxon/Mobil […]
We have been engaged in the battle over the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) since October 2012. Americans, Canadians, and people in the “Partnership” countries are fighting it. It is a deal for corporations, at terrible expense to citizens. Julian Assange (Wikileaks) published the early leaks about the TPP. Our American colleagues have been successful in fighting down one aspect of […]
ExxonMobil is the operator of the Hibernia oil project off Newfoundland’s east coast. CBC NOTE: the Atlantic Accord under which the R&D money was to go to the Province has been in place since 1985, for 25 years. Would they not have known about it? ALSO – there’s the list of other even more egregious […]
by Sunny Freeman The AbitibiBowater saw mill in Mackenzie, British Columbia May 15, 2008. The pulp-and-paper company won the largest settlement against Canada under NAFTA investor-state dispute mechanisms: $130 million. | CP Canada is the most-sued country under the North American Free Trade Agreement and a majority of the disputes involve investors challenging the country’s […]
The Trans-PACIFIC Partnership (TPP). Canadians and Americans are together in the same trade deal with Asian countries (unlike Europe – two separate (but same) deals). People scrambling – today Wikileaks released draft text. From Malaysian perspective: 2013-11-14 Leaked Asia trade text sees US backing firms, The Malaysian Insider. There is pandemonium on both […]
It’s worse – much worse – than we thought. A bombshell leak by Wikileaks just revealed how giant U.S. conglomerates are about to impose an extreme Internet censorship plan that will wreck Canada’s […]
There are trade deals to cross the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific! Pacific: Canada and the U.S. are in the same trade deal, the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) – – news of leaked text is below. Atlantic: see 2013-11-09 Contrast: Transatlantic Trade Deals (CETA & TTIP) vs “We Are Living in the World Occupy Made” Leaked Asia trade […]
. . . treat(ies) that would let rapacious companies subvert our laws, rights and national sovereignty (de-confuse CETA, TTIP and TTP, just 3 of the trade deals): CETA, the trade deal between Canada & Europe, the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement See http://www.canadians.org/search/node/CETA TTIP: The equivalent deal, but between the US & Europe is the […]
. . . a treaty that would let rapacious companies subvert our laws, rights and national sovereignty CETA: The trade deal between Canada & Europe is the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (Ref http://www.canadians.org/search/node/CETA) TTIP: The equivalent deal, but between US & Europe is the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (Wish I had time […]