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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
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