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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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Sold Down the YangtzeCanada's lopsided investment deal with China |
When legal experts finally saw the terms of the investment deal Canada had signed with China, they could hardly believe what their eyes. The deal was unprecedented — Canada had never given … | Gus Van Harten | 368 | 2015 | View |
From PrefaceFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Outline of how Van Harten will approach his analysis of the FIPA and what is wrong with the deal for both Canadians and Chinese people | Gus Van Harten | 6 | 2015 | $0.60 Add |
From A Prime Minister bends the kneeFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
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 Protecting Canadian investors, with a catchFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
The FIPA does provide stronger protection for Canadian investors in China but here Van Harten outlines why they are not strong protections | Gus Van Harten | 6 | 2015 | $0.60 Add |
From China can keep its discriminatory lawsFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
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 Canada plays the capital-importing loserFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
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 NEW! The Nationalists of 1968 and the Search for Canadian IndependenceFrom: 1968 in Canada |
The year 1968 marked a decisive break in the history of English-Canadian nationalism. An older generation of nationalists, mostly located in rural Canada and concerned with the loosening of … | Stephen Azzi | 24 | 2021 | $2.40 Add |
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 |
From Market access for Chinese investors, but not for Canadian investors From: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Chinese companies have a general right in the FIPA to buy into Canada’s economy, which is then subject to limitations in some cases. On the other hand, Canadian investors have no general … | Gus Van Harten | 11 | 2015 | $1.10 Add |
From Rebuilding the House of Labour |
Presents the internal pressures and new dilemmas facing the labour movement today | Craig Heron | 29 | 2012 | $2.90 Add |
From A New Agenda for Labour |
Assesses the emerging agenda for labour in the hostile climate of the 1990s | Craig Heron | 11 | 2012 | $1.10 Add |
From Faith in the Investment Canada ActFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
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 Possible conflicts over Canadian jobs, health, and the environment From: Sold Down the Yangtze |
not all Chinese investment in Canada is objectionable. Yet, for many Canadians, it seems possible that Chinese investment will undermine their priorities when it comes to jobs, health, or the … | Gus Van Harten | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
From Labour at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century |
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 |
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 |
From Does Canada’s rule of law protect us?From: Sold Down the Yangtze |
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 |