Gus Van Harten
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From  The government’s spin, part threeFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
My last example of the government’s misleading responses to concerns about the FIPA comes from the legal challenge brought by the Hupacasath First Nation. | Gus Van Harten | 11 | 2015 | $1.10 Add |
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From The government’s spin, part twoFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Despite the Conservatives’ efforts to limit debate, other politicians were able to use the process at the House of Commons trade committee, and elsewhere in Parliament, to put important … | Gus Van Harten | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
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From “The largest energy project in the entire world”From: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Analyzes reports about why the Harper Government would support this plan tieing their support to the oil sands and finds the government seemed anxious for China to support Canada’s resource … | Gus Van Harten | 12 | 2015 | $1.20 Add |
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From The legal challenge to the FIPA, part oneFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
The public opposition to the China FIPA included thousands of people who took steps to support an effort by the Hupacasath First Nation, an aboriginal community on Vancouver Island in British … | Gus Van Harten | 11 | 2015 | $1.10 Add |
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From The legal challenge to the FIPA, part twoFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Through focusing on the arguments of the government’s foreign investment expert, J. Christopher Thomas, and how the courts favoured his opinions Van Harten outlines how the legal challenge … | Gus Van Harten | 10 | 2015 | $1.00 Add |
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From The magical FIPA: attracting Chinese investment without any environmental impact!From: Sold Down the Yangtze |
It is especially telling that the government, in its environmental assessment of the China FIPA, discounted entirely the possibility of environmental impacts of new Chinese investment in Canada. … | Gus Van Harten | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
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From The price tag for democracyFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Chinese investors can use the FIPA to challenge anything that a legislature or government or court in Canada does. They may not win, but the ability to sue in this way is a powerful tool by … | Gus Van Harten | 7 | 2015 | $0.70 Add |
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From The roller coaster continuesFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Awards of compensation for foreign investors have risen to billions of dollars, and now tens of billions. Lawyers have developed new and creative arguments for compensating foreign investors, … | Gus Van Harten | 6 | 2015 | $0.60 Add |
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From The special status of Chinese investorsFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
under the FIPA, Chinese investors now have a power to sidestep Canada’s legal system by starting a lawsuit under the FIPA. Or, they can go to the courts in Canada to attempt to strike down … | Gus Van Harten | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
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From The strange case of Stephen GordonFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Analyzes an article written in Maclean’s Magazine by Stephen Gordan which presents a poorly informed spin on the FIPA | Gus Van Harten | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
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From The trade specialistsFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
My point is that the federal government should have put the competing claims about the FIPA to the test, in public, by organizing a thorough and independent review. It should have brought in … | Gus Van Harten | 6 | 2015 | $0.60 Add |
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From Thirty-one years and a hysterical scenarioFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
If one accepts climate change as a pressing concern, it is hard to imagine a more epic fail than the FIPA. For years, the Harper Government told Canadians it would not act on climate change until … | Gus Van Harten | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
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From What do the treaties prohibit?From: Sold Down the Yangtze |
The expansions of the treaties’ vague protections for foreign investors have a corresponding impact on voters who want a government to be able to change its policies, or on taxpayers who … | Gus Van Harten | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
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From What if it was a judicial process?From: Sold Down the Yangtze |
One of the key flaws in investor-state arbitration is that it leads to final decisions about issues of great importance for countries (and foreign investors too), but does not use a judicial … | Gus Van Harten | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
