Canada Sued for Billions Under NAFTA Investor Protections

Ambassador BridgeStudy charts foreign corporations’ growing use of NAFTA’s investor protections to sue governments over environmental and economic regulations.

The private owner of the Detroit-Windsor bridge is suing Canada for billions under NAFTA, one of many legal cases cited in a new study on corporations’ growing use of investor protection measures to challenge the Canadian, U.S. and Mexican governments.

Michigan billionaire Matty Moroun, owner of the existing bridge connecting Windsor to Detroit, is claiming damages from Ottawa in connection with Canada’s plan to help build a second bridge linking Ontario to Michigan at Detroit.

Photo: The Ambassador Bridge connecting Windsor Ontario to Detroit Michigan. ‘All the way to Canada’ by Thomas Hawk licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

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