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Title: Invite to Canada EU FTA Discussions in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal April 19-22
Topic: Globalisation and Trade
Written By: Janet M Eaton
Date: Monday, April 19 at 11:43







Dear Friends, 
If you are concerned with how sweeping free trade negotiations between Canada and the European Union may affect public services, labour rights, environmental policy, culture, economic development, food policy, water services, and more, then please read on.

 We would like to invite you to an important event on the Canada-European Union comprehensive economic and trade negotiations. We wish to invite discussion on the largest, most intrusive free trade deal that Canada has ever entered into. Negotiations are progressing quickly, with little public scrutiny.

Canada is offering to make commitments that go beyond NAFTA and the WTO. On the table are chapters on services and investment, domestic regulation and standards, public procurement, and intellec
tual property rights.

Canada is also pushing to include a controversial, NAFTA-like, investor-state dispute mechanism that will allow European companies to sue the federal, provincial and municipal governments if they enact policies that interfere with profits.

To help us shed light on the European Union’s free trade agenda, we have invited three people from the trade
 movement in Europe to speak at public events in Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto from April 19 to 21, 2010.....

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[Dave Ruston]

Ah, yes, just like chapter 11 of NAFTA- where any corporation can sue any level of government for lost profits! I say we should also press our government to scrap NAFTA!!