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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From A left-wing hobby horse? From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	I highlight in this short chapter some perspectives on investor-state arbitration that are critical and decidedly not left-wing.	Gus Van Harten	5	2015	$0.50 Add
From A New Agenda for Labour From: The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History View James Lorimer and Company	Assesses the emerging agenda for labour in the hostile climate of the 1990s	Craig Heron	11	2012	$1.10 Add
From A Prime Minister bends the knee From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	How the Harper Governments association with China lef to the FIPA which favours China’s agenda and disregards economc and democratic priorities of Canada	Gus Van Harten	9	2015	$0.90 Add
From A reply to the charges of bias, part one From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	Van Harten outline how his expert witness my opinion was apparently doomed from the start because I had previously expressed views about investor-state arbitration and the FIPA.	Gus Van Harten	10	2015	$1.00 Add
From A reply to the charges of bias, part two From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	after Chief Justice Crampton dismissed my opinion in his judgment, I took more of an interest in him. I lay out aspects of his background here, not to suggest that Chief Justice Crampton was …	Gus Van Harten	13	2015	$1.30 Add
From An example of regulatory chill From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	Opponents of investor-state arbitration have long warned that it may lead to so-called “regulatory chill,” by creating financial risks for countries that deter responsible regulation …	Gus Van Harten	10	2015	$1.00 Add
From Andrew Coyne, part one From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	Analyzes arguments made by Andrew Coyne in his role as a columnist for the National Post	Gus Van Harten	6	2015	$0.60 Add
From Andrew Coyne, part two From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	Analyzes arguments made by Andrew Coyne in his role as a columnist for the National Post	Gus Van Harten	11	2015	$1.10 Add
From Canada plays the capital-importing loser From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	Canadians assume more of the risk and constraints because Chinese companies own more in Canada, making Canada the capitalimporter in the relationship. By implication, the FIPA’s negative …	Gus Van Harten	12	2015	$1.20 Add
From Channelling hope From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	In this final chapter, I offer a few hopeful and specific ideas about what governments could be pushed to do to protect Canadians in the era of the FIPA and investor-state arbitration.	Gus Van Harten	8	2015	$0.80 Add
From China can keep its discriminatory laws From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	Outlines the lopsided nature of the FIPA regarding the fact that China has more law in place against foreign investment than Canada does.	Gus Van Harten	9	2015	$0.90 Add
From Does Canada’s rule of law protect us? From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	By analyzing the number of investment lawsuits by country Canada has been a much more inviting target for foreign investor lawsuits, regardless of the rule of law. The FIPA promoters’ …	Gus Van Harten	7	2015	$0.70 Add
From Faith in the Investment Canada Act From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	It is true that the FIPA has a carve-out for the Investment Canada Act. This carve-out lets the federal government block specific Chinese takeovers of Canadian companies. On the other hand, the …	Gus Van Harten	9	2015	$0.90 Add
From For-profit arbitrators instead of judges From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	all of the decisions of investor-state arbitrators are open to doubt because of the absence of judicial safeguards: secure tenure, a set salary, an objective method of case assignment, and so on. …	Gus Van Harten	9	2015	$0.90 Add
From John Ivison From: Sold Down the Yangtze View James Lorimer and Company	Looks at John Ivison’s attack on NDP leader Thomas Mulcair in relation to the FIPA	Gus Van Harten	7	2015	$0.70 Add
From Labour at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century From: The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History View James Lorimer and Company	Canadian Unions had a rough ride over the decade and a half after the mid-1990s The state and business initiatives that had sapped labour’s strength continued and had forced the labour …	Craig Heron	23	2012	$2.30 Add