"Corporate Globalization, Corporate Power, Free Trade, Mega

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"Corporate Globalization, Corporate Power, Free Trade, Mega Trade Agreements and the Negative Impacts of TPP" - Power Point

[ http://www.commonfrontiers.ca/Single_Pa ... AL-PPT.pdf ]

by Janet M Eaton, PhD, member of Common Frontiers Canada, and the Cdn Trade Justice Network.

January 2016

This 60-slide educational power point presentation with photos, quotes, and references was created to provide background knowledge on corporate globalization, corporate power, and free trade agreements as context for understanding the mega-trade agreements like TPP, TTIP, CETA and TISA. It also provides specific knowledge on the nature of and some of the negative impacts of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) and the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS).

The power point concludes with information on the Canadian government's promises to consult citizens and groups before ratifying the TPP and makes recommendations for influencing government and becoming engaged in government consultations on the TPP. Clickable links to video clips provide current audiovisual analysis of subjects covered in the presentation. .

Audiovisual Links include:

Video on Corporate Power:

Professor Susan George speaking on Shadow Sovereigns : How global Corporations are Seizing Power – 5.4 min.
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOrJqWMzpXM ]

Videos on Free Trade Agreements and Corporate Power
Free Trade 101 video from Common Frontiers [3 Min]
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvdhZ04ElmY ]
Explanation of free trade and investor state agreements from perspective of a business executive -satirical


TheRealNews Days of Revolt: The Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab in American History With Chris Hedges
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tRIFmhA7gs&feature=yo ]
In this episode of Days of Revolt, Chris Hedges and organizer Kevin Zeese break down the terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) after discussing corporate power.

Videos on TPP explained;

What is the TPP? (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Sierra Club US
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYm6nGCF46I ]

The TPP The Dirtiest Deal you've never heard of - [3 Min]
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9ZFDpuiFUs ]

Australian perspective

Videos on ISDS

German TV documentary on ISDS Konzerne klagen - wir zahlen [Eng subtitles] 0-2 Min Intro / 2:00 - 11:00 min]
Digby Neck ISDS case explained
[ https://youtu.be/YV2NZ9MQh0w?t=12m22s ] [12 min to 18 min]

Dutch Documentary on ISDS: TTIP: Might is Right (VPRO Backlight) [ 49:16Min ]
[ https://youtu.be/j0LOwmwgkdA?t=14s ] Intro Gus
[ https://youtu.be/j0LOwmwgkdA?t=18m46s ] BITs whats w

Both Documentaries provide in depth interviews with Canadian International Investment Law Professor Gus Van Harten in unpacking the ISDS. The German film highlights the Nova Scotia, Digby Neck Quarry Bilcon case while the Dutch film highlights the Lone Pine Resources case against the Quebec decision to ban fracking among others.

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Digby Neck residents fighting Whites Point Quarry get some international support

[ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scot ... -1.3717285 ]

U.S. company Bilcon is seeking $101 million in damages against the Canadian government

By Natalie Dobbin, CBC News Posted: Aug 12, 2016 7:30 AM AT| Last Updated: Aug 12, 2016 7:30 AM AT

People fighting plans for Whites Point Quarry in Digby Neck, N.S., got some international support this week.

Author and journalist Noah Richler welcomed Anne-Marie Mineur, a Dutch Member of the European Parliament (MEP), along with a member of the Council of Canadians, into his part-time home in Digby Neck. Community members were also there for the information session.

"We're concerned about the effect this might have across the country on communities, as I say, wanting to seal their own fates," Richler told CBC's Information Morning.

Canadian sovereignty

He said the decade-long debate is bigger than environmental concerns, or whether the project would have created as many jobs as it promised.

It's about Canadian sovereignty, he said.

Richler is concerned government might give in to pressure from Bilcon.

"The legal chill that works at the level of the individual in courts — where basically lawsuits are slapped on to intimidate you or I from doing what we think is right — occurs also at the governmental level," Richler said.

"If mining companies are able to lean on Canada and know they can do so fairly freely, then we're in trouble."

Ten years ago, local residents came together to stop the American company.

Canada rejected the deal, but a NAFTA tribunal found it did so wrongly. Now, Bilcon is seeking $101 million in damages against the Canadian government. The federal government is appealing the NAFTA decision.

"Essentially a supranational body has decided against the decision that we've come up with in Canada, to protect our land and our values,"

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