We must demand that free trade does not restrict our sovereign right to protect our land, air, and water.
We got these anti-democratic trade provisions out of NAFTA / USMCA but Canada is about to sign over sovereignty again in the new Trans-Pacific Partnership!
The Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) will soon to be ratified by the Liberal government. The time to act is now. These unjust trade dispute settlement mechanisms — which have already cost Canadian taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars — must be scrapped.