Interesting excerpt from the article that OP links to:
"On September 9, 2012, Canada signed a Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) with China.
FIPAs are Canada’s name for bilateral investment treaties, which are used by corporations globally to challenge public policies or community decisions that interfere with their profits.
...
Because of extreme investment protections in NAFTA, Canada has paid out $160 million to U.S. corporations who challenged public decisions, including environmental policy.
Canadian mining companies are using FIPAs with developing countries to claim damages from community opposition to unwanted mega-projects.
If the FIPA with China is ratified, Chinese corporations will be able to challenge local, provincial and federal policies or laws that interfere with their “right” to make a profit from, for example, proposed tarsands or fracking projects, pipelines, or mines.
Canadian firms will have the same “right” in China, which will impact human rights and environmental protections there.
We believe the FIPA fundamentally undermines democracy.
It will give Chinese firms in Canada and Canadian firms in China 31 years of “protection” – from environmental, human rights or resource conservation measures they don’t like, while companies and private investors gain the right to sue Canada or China, in controversial and unaccountable private tribunals outside the court system."
Well this story in the PRESENT context sort of means something.
I'm simply amazed that you would live your life assuming information that comes from the past has NO relevance in regards to what is going on today. You're an idiot!
I think it is extremely relevant to events right now. What made you think I didn't? My amazement is at this loss of Canadian national sovereignty, nothing else.
Honestly, the comment I responded to is not the one showing now. It certainly came from your account though but now the comment is entirely different. Your original comment was a 2 secentence sarcastic notion that an article about a 2019 occurrence was crazy to be posting here.
Interesting excerpt from the article that OP links to:
"On September 9, 2012, Canada signed a Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) with China.
FIPAs are Canada’s name for bilateral investment treaties, which are used by corporations globally to challenge public policies or community decisions that interfere with their profits.
...
Because of extreme investment protections in NAFTA, Canada has paid out $160 million to U.S. corporations who challenged public decisions, including environmental policy.
Canadian mining companies are using FIPAs with developing countries to claim damages from community opposition to unwanted mega-projects.
If the FIPA with China is ratified, Chinese corporations will be able to challenge local, provincial and federal policies or laws that interfere with their “right” to make a profit from, for example, proposed tarsands or fracking projects, pipelines, or mines.
Canadian firms will have the same “right” in China, which will impact human rights and environmental protections there.
We believe the FIPA fundamentally undermines democracy.
It will give Chinese firms in Canada and Canadian firms in China 31 years of “protection” – from environmental, human rights or resource conservation measures they don’t like, while companies and private investors gain the right to sue Canada or China, in controversial and unaccountable private tribunals outside the court system."
(Huh?
What?
What unaccountable tribunals? That's crazy!"
Well this story in the PRESENT context sort of means something.
I'm simply amazed that you would live your life assuming information that comes from the past has NO relevance in regards to what is going on today. You're an idiot!
I think it is extremely relevant to events right now. What made you think I didn't? My amazement is at this loss of Canadian national sovereignty, nothing else.
Honestly, the comment I responded to is not the one showing now. It certainly came from your account though but now the comment is entirely different. Your original comment was a 2 secentence sarcastic notion that an article about a 2019 occurrence was crazy to be posting here.
Whats going on?!?