The EU And Canada Seem Determined To Ram Through CETA Deal Without Proper Scrutiny
Found on Techdirt on Wednesday, 23 November 2016
CETA is a smaller-scale agreement between the EU and Canada, but it's more important than it looks. It allows US companies with subsidiaries in Canada to use the agreement's corporate sovereignty provisions to sue the EU -- and there are 42,000 such companies according to one analysis.
As in the EU, then, the Canadian public is expected to sit back and meekly allow their government to sign up to a deal with open-ended risks, thanks to corporate sovereignty, but without any proper scrutiny of the costs and alleged benefits.
Nothing, absolutely nothing has been learned. The EU still does just the same what greatly annoys the people. It ignores concerns, blocks requests and denies more detailed research. That is exactly why people are getting fed up with all of that and rally behind parties which promise a change.