Blaney hosts anti-TPP info session

[Tracey Ramsey] is one of the vice-chairs of the Standing Committee on International Trade as well as the federal trade critic. She and the rest of the trade committee are compiling a report about the TPP and what Canadians think of it and presenting it to parliament. Ramsey said that this report pr...

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Published inCampbell River mirror
Main Author Doll, Jocelyn
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Campbell River, B.C Black Press Group Ltd 28.07.2016
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Blaney, Rachel
Ramsey, Tracey
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Summary:[Tracey Ramsey] is one of the vice-chairs of the Standing Committee on International Trade as well as the federal trade critic. She and the rest of the trade committee are compiling a report about the TPP and what Canadians think of it and presenting it to parliament. Ramsey said that this report provides the MPs with much of the information they will use to decide how to vote. Ramsey said 97 per cent of Canadian exports to TPP countries are already duty free, quoting Blair Rudlin, co-chair of Trade Justice Network. The TPP is mostly an investor protection agreement. One of the major concerns that the NDP and Ramsey have about the TPP is the Investor State Dispute Settlement Agreement. Ramsey explained that when a member country enacts legislation that regulates what a foreign investor can do in that country and has potentially negative impacts on that business they can sue the government and it will all be dealt with in a secret tribunal.
ISSN:1484-2769