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Canada-China treaty needs to be exposed

The Canada-China FIPA treaty contains extreme measures that will affect Canadians for a long time.

The Canada-China FIPA treaty contains extreme measures that will affect Canadians for a long time. Surely this trade deal must be exposed for what it is so that Canadian citizens can take action to oppose it if they disagree with its provisions. If the Canada-China FIPA passes, it will pave the way for China’s massive companies to spend billions buying out Canada’s natural resource companies without a single debate or vote.  Under FIPA, China’s companies can sue Canadian governments, federal, provincial or municipal, in secret tribunals outside the Canadian court system if those governments do anything that would limit the companies’ profits in Canada.

Theodore McAlister