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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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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 |
From Andrew Coyne, part oneFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
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 John IvisonFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
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 Andrew Coyne, part twoFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
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 Milos Barutciski and Matthew Kronby, part one From: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Another group that emerged to defend the FIPA after it became controversial was lawyers who work in investor-state arbitration | Gus Van Harten | 11 | 2015 | $1.10 Add |
From Milos Barutciski and Matthew Kronby, part two From: Sold Down the Yangtze |
The key claim in Barutciski and Kronby’s Globe and Mail article was that the FIPA would benefit Canada. When they made this claim, I suggest that Barutciski and Kronby should have … | Gus Van Harten | 7 | 2015 | $0.70 Add |
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 |
From Lawrence HermanFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Analyzes Lawrence Herman’s opinions on the FIPA | Gus Van Harten | 15 | 2015 | $1.50 Add |
From A left-wing hobby horse?From: Sold Down the Yangtze |
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 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 |
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 |
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 |
From Laura Dawson’s lawn dartsFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Analyzes an interview with Laura Dawson about her opinion on the FIPA. He concludes the interview worked as a sort of damage control on the part of the governement | Gus Van Harten | 14 | 2015 | $1.40 Add |
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 |
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 |
From Other explanations for a lopsided dealFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
analyzes other opinions about why the government would accept such a lopsided arrangement with China | Gus Van Harten | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |