Trade Deals Should Work for Us – FIPA Petition

At any moment, Prime Minister Harper could pass the most significant international investors’ deal of a generation.

Most Canadians have never heard of FIPA, the Canada-China Foreign Investment Protection Agreement, because Prime Minister Harper tried to sneak it through without a single vote or debate in Parliament.

  • FIPA will allow foreign corporations the right to sue Canadian governments for legislating in the public interest and protecting our environment.
  • FIPA will give China’s state-owned corporations access to and control over Canada’s natural resources.
  • FIPA allows disputes to be heard by unaccountable tribunals with no public access.
  • FIPA was negotiated in secret without consultation or debate.
  • FIPA will lock Canada in for 31 years.

The Canada-China FIPA could be approved any day now unless we work together to stop it. If enough of us raise our voices now, we can create a massive public outcry to stop this devastating deal in its tracks.

Send your message now to Prime Minister Harper, your MP, and opposition leaders: Stop the Canada-China FIPA!

Download the petition to collect signatures to stop FIPA!

 

 

*Read Maude Barlow’s article in Watershed Sentinel about how trade agreements are signing away our rights to water: http://www.watershedsentinel.ca/content/trading-away-our-water-rights

* For detailed information about FIPA and CETA see http://www.slideshare.net/andreapalframan/fipaslideshow-31411143#

 

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