Gus Van Harten

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From The government’s spin, part three From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	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
From The government’s spin, part two From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	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
From “The largest energy project in the entire world” From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	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
From The legal challenge to the FIPA, part one From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	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
From The legal challenge to the FIPA, part two From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	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
From The magical FIPA: attracting Chinese investment without any environmental impact! From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	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
From The price tag for democracy From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	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
From The roller coaster continues From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	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
From The special status of Chinese investors From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	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
From The strange case of Stephen Gordon From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	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
From The trade specialists From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	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
From Thirty-one years and a hysterical scenario From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	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
From What do the treaties prohibit? From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	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
From What if it was a judicial process? From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	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