[All] 16 days to stop Canada-China FIPA agreement~Really, Stephen Harper?!!!

[Daphne NICHOLLS]

> From: "Emma Pullman  SumOfUs.org" us at sumofus.org

> 
> We have two weeks to stop Prime Minister Harper from passing the biggest corporate power handover in Canadian history. 
>  <http://act.sumofus.org/go/853?t=1&akid=924.853079.5do4_r> 
> Tell Harper and your MP: Canada is not for sale. Stop the Canada-China deal and Nexen takeover. 
>  <http://act.sumofus.org/go/853?t=2&akid=924.853079.5do4_r> 
> In just two weeks, Prime Minister Harper could pass the most massive corporate power handover in Canadian history. 
> FIPA, the Canada-China Foreign Investment Protection Agreement, could give foreign corporations sweeping powers to sue Canadian governments for implementing environmental protections on the tar sands, or for stopping the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and other projects like it. And worse, these lawsuits would happen in secret. 
> Prime Minister Harper has arranged for FIPA to pass automatically on October 31, without a single vote or debate in Parliament. That's why we partnered with Leadnow.ca on this campaign -- if enough of us raise our voices now, a massive public outcry could actually stop this devastating deal in its tracks. 
> Click here to go to Leadnow.ca's website to send a message to Prime Minister Harper and your MP: Canada is not for sale, stop the Canada-China FIPA.  <http://act.sumofus.org/go/853?t=3&akid=924.853079.5do4_r> 
> If 30,000 sign, we will deliver your messages directly to Parliament in Ottawa. 
> Alongside this deal, the Harper government is trying to speed through the sale of one of Canada's largest oil and gas companies, Nexen, to the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation, one of China's massive state-owned oil companies. This $15-billion-dollar takeover will open the floodgates to a wave of foreign buyouts of Canada's natural resources. FIPA will only extend the power that these corporations have once they have bought our natural resources -- and China's state-owned corporations have virtually unlimited amounts of money to spend buying out companies to secure their country's long-term access to energy. 
> If Harper signs FIPA, once a Chinese company owns a Canadian resource, it can covertly sue Canadian governments - municipal, provincial or federal - if that government does anything that threatens the company's profits. 
> This means that any Canadian law or government decision - even ones that protect Canadian jobs, our environment, our economy and our families - could be fought in secret tribunals outside of our legal system. The regulations could be stopped even if they would save Canadians lives, or were critical to averting catastrophic climate change. And arbitrators, unaccountable to the Canadian public, would have the power to award billions in damages to foreign corporations. 
> Time is running out to stop this devastating deal. Harper has arranged for FIPA to pass automatically on October 31 -- unless we can raise enough of a public outcry to stop him. 
> Click here to tell Prime Minister Harper and your MP: Canada is not for sale, stop the Canada-China deal and the Nexen takeover. <http://act.sumofus.org/go/853?t=4&akid=924.853079.5do4_r> 
> You are awesome, 
> Emma, Taren, Jamie, Matthew, Julia and the rest of us 
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> Further Reading: 
> Canada-China Investment Deal Allows for Confidential Lawsuits Against Canada <http://act.sumofus.org/go/851?t=5&akid=924.853079.5do4_r> . Toronto Star, September 29, 2012.  
> Chinese Companies Can Sue BC for Changing Course on Northern Gateway, says Policy Expert <http://act.sumofus.org/go/852?t=6&akid=924.853079.5do4_r> . Vancouver Observer, October 12, 2012.
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