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Fighting TTIP, CETA and ISDS : Lutte contre le TTIP, l'AECG et le mécanisme de RDIE: les enseignements du Canada

27 Oct 2015

She served as Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the United Nations General Assembly and was a leader in the campaign to have water recognized as a human right by the UN. [...] In 1989, Canada and the United States signed TTIP is a proposed trade and investment agree- the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement ment between the EU and the U. S. to open up (CUSTA). [...] NAFTA’s legacy is alive and well in both the Proponents claim that TTIP and CETA will “grow” Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership the economies of both the EU and North America, (TTIP) between the European Union and the creating jobs and wealth for both North Ameri- United States and the Comprehensive Economic cans and Europeans. [...] But they are compensation for the “water and timber probably just the tip of the iceberg because many rights” it left behind when it abandoned its new laws or changes to laws never come to light operations in the province of Newfoundland because of the “chill effect” of prior restraint. [...] The ability of investors us that nearly 3 million Europeans have signed a to take a case before the court would be precisely petition rejecting TTIP and that 97 per cent of the defined and limited to cases such as targeted dis- respondents to a consultation rejected investor- crimination on the basis of gender, race, national- state provisions in any form.
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Authors

Barlow, Maude

Pages
16
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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