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From  NEW! The elephant still twitchesTrudeau’s management of Canada–U.S. relations in the “America First” era From: The Trudeau Record |
This chapter looks at Canadian foreign policy under the Trudeau government, specifically in its management of Canada-US relations. | Richard Nimijean | 17 | 2024 | $1.70 Add |
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From  The explosion of foreign investor lawsuitsFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
overview of the history of foreign investor lawsuits and how FIPA has accelerated them | Gus Van Harten | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
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From The FIPA and the courtsFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
This example shows how investor-state arbitrators can review a country’s highest courts, and order its people to pay for whatever the arbitrators order as a protection for foreign … | Gus Van Harten | 14 | 2015 | $1.40 Add |
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From The FIPA media blitzFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Analyzes the media’s poorly informed spin on the FIPA and how this fueled government led propaganda | Gus Van Harten | 11 | 2015 | $1.10 Add |
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From The government’s spin, part oneFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
How did the Harper Government spin the FIPA? It would take another book to count all the ways. I discuss four examples in the next few chapters. The first example is the prime minister’s … | Gus Van Harten | 11 | 2015 | $1.10 Add |
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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  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 |
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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 |
