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Multilateral Agreement on Investment: Discuss/oppose.
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SIG files
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Dear partners in political/social activism and participants in public discussion, dear friends: I have been noticeing that SIGs (automatically appended signature files) are becoming more popular and also seem to get longer, and now not only private individuals but also mailing list programs attach them to messages.... more »
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Accountability and foreign investment.
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Dear Friends, For whatever it is worth, I would like to express my thanks and support for Henry McCandless postings on accountability. While I also agree to a very great extent with Yves' skepticism over the actions and reactions of the public, there are always the consequences of the "last straw on the camel's back". Until then nobody can do anything to... more »
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Taking the matter to court? (more info)
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Hello again... In reply to a private message from Terry, here is some information straight from the source. I hope that between Connie Fogals position and Terry's concerns and analysis (regarding court cases in general and in particular) there will be room to extract some useable ideas. In any case i think the... more »
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Book Review on getting power. (fwd)
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At the root of the MAI discussion lies the question of power - the have's getting more and the havenot's losing ... this debate surely ought to include whether the result can be influenced by theatre. MichaelP ---------- Forwarded message ---------- ...This is an interesting book review; the subject is about using spin to... more »
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Comment on Western Govs. Report on MAI (fwd)
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fwd comment from another list; for what it's worth (MP) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- ...To: nation-t...@thenation.com ...I bounced the Western Govs Report on MAI over to my economist friend. This is her response: First of all, any time anyone talks "level playing field", I smell skunk. They ususally have in mind UN-leveling the playing field.... more »
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Public hearings
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Hi all, Correct me if I'm wrong, but the one of the thrusts of our campaign against the MAI is to get the government to hold public hearings on the MAI. It has occured to me that our requests may not be specific enough. Calling for the standing committee on international trade to hold public hearings, may mean that they will only hold these hearings once the... more »
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Informative anaysis of MAI by WGA
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[link] I just stumbled on the above webpage, an analysis by the Western Governors Association of the effect of the MAI on local governments (in the States). It's well referenced and based on law and official government documents. Here's the prologue: Multilateral Agreement on Investment:... more »
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The myth of free trade. Part 2
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...pressing workload I can't go through all the files and have to write much of this from memory. However, in case of any questions I can provide the sources. ...Conservative (PC) leadership campaign in 1983 by one of the candidates, John Crosbie. A member of a prominent Newfoundland polical family, who have... more »
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The myth of free trade. Part 1.
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FORWARDED TO MAI-NOT. THE LESSONS OF FREE TRADE ...Canada with the FTA and NAFTA. Then I realized that the so called "free trade" angle is only a small link in a long chain of inevitable events. I have written a number of occasions about these in the past, but this time I would like to break the whole problem down into several parts, so I can get... more »
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Kangaroo court
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Dear Friends, Whenever we question the constitutional legality of the MAI kangaroo court, the answer comes back that that we already have such dispute settling mechanism within NAFTA. A precedent is only good until it is challenged and turned over. In 1988 during the FTA negotiations the Tories were forced by the Liberals and the... more »
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