TILMA jeopardy : Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility jeopardy

Any errors and the opinions presented in this paper are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. [...] In the United States, the National Conference The Committee recommended that this dis- of State Legislatures are so concerned about pute settlement mechanism “which enables the impact of the controversial process on a foreign-affiliated investor to bypass the state sovereignty that they recently wrote to domestic court system and challenge govern- the U. S. Trade Representative requesting that men [...] There is an underlying tension between these If adopted, the agreement imposes a freeze, or aims and the basis of TILMA, namely, to standstill on all the activities and government promote the freer flow of goods, services and regulation of Crown corporations (Art. [...] In and corporations could challenge even the doing so, they necessarily restrict or impair the continued existence of Crown corporations in ability of private investors from elsewhere to the province, claiming they impaired private invest and profit from doing things that are investment, contrary to Article 3 (No now done by the Crowns in the public obstacles). [...] Crown corporations provide: guarding Saskatchewan’s Crown corporations, • public investment, provincial regulatory ability in the Crown sector — and, more generally, democratic • public goods and services, governance in the province — from the sub- • public employment stantial threats posed by TILMA is for the Province to refrain from acceding to the • public revenues, and agreement in the first p