May 15, 2013 – You are invited to a public discussion on "CETA, FIPA, TPP: The New Face of Corporate Power." This event will be part of an eight-city speaking tour in B.C. to build opposition to Canada's corporate trade agenda.
Event details:
Saturday, May 25
7-9 p.m.
May 15, 2013 – You are invited to a public discussion on "CETA, FIPA, TPP: The New Face of Corporate Power." This event will be part of an eight-city speaking tour in B.C. to build opposition to Canada's corporate trade agenda.
Event details:
Saturday, May 25
7-9 p.m.
CHLY Global Headquarters, 25 Front St., Nanaimo (Map)
Hosted by the Mid-Island Chapter of the Council of Canadians
For more information please call 250-729-1254, or email midislandcoc@gmail.com
Sunday, May 26
2-5 p.m.
The Labour Hall, 830 14th Ave, Campbell River (Map)
Hosted by the Campbell River Chapter of the Council of Canadians
For more information please call 250-286-3019, or email surfdust@telus.net
Monday, May 27
7-9 p.m.
Little Red Church, 2182 Comox Ave., Comox (Map)
Hosted by the Comox Valley Chapter of the Council of Canadians
For more information please call 250-344-4608, or email cvcouncilofcanadians@gmail.com
The Government of Canada has signed, is negotiating and is hoping to ratify a variety of new corporate rights treaties that promote and lock in the rights of corporations to make a profit while undermining communities' abilities to make decisions in their own interest. Like NAFTA before them, these deals are not about trade. Every new agreement further entrenches a corporate vision of deregulation, resource exploitation and privatization.
These "next generation" deals include the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) with the European Union, the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations that Canada joined this past December, and countless investor rights pacts, like the one with China, called Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements (FIPA / FIPPA).
Opposition to these deals is building. More than 80 municipalities have passed resolutions voicing their concerns or opposition to the CETA negotiations. Nearly 100,000 people signed a petition against the Canada-China FIPA, and the Hupacasath First Nation has launched a constitutional challenge to its ratification. Communities are beginning to organize and educate about the TPP in solidarity with global trade justice movements.
The Council of Canadians is hosting this speaking tour in B.C. to build collective opposition to all of these agreements. In the spirit of the anti-WTO Battle for Seattle and the Quebec City protest against the defeated Free Trade Area of the Americas, we hope to bring our vibrant movements back into the streets to derail Canada's corporate rights agenda and dismantle the treaties that lock it in.
I hope you can join me!
Stuart Trew, Trade Campaigner