Investment
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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 Story MachineFrom: Clean Money Revolution |
Invest in “companies that would be part of the solution, rather than part of the problem. Renewal Partners put capital into for-profit enterprises, but our larger goal was to model money … | Joel Solomon; Tyee Bridge | 24 | 2017 | $2.40 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 |
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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 |
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From Thirty-one years and a hysterical scenarioFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
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 |
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From  Those You Can TrustFrom: The Great Greenwashing |
From The Great Greenwashing: How Brands, Governments, and Influencers Are Lying to You | John Pabon | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From Through the Looking GlassFrom: Clean Money Revolution |
how can money be deployed in a spirit of service, rather than simply to make more money. Organizations with a systemic approach can effectively leverage relatively small amounts of capital into … | Joel Solomon; Tyee Bridge | 28 | 2017 | $2.80 Add |
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From  Towards Financial Sustainability |
If you took a survey of social entrepreneurs, particularly those in the startup phase, and asked them about their top challenges, you’d no doubt hear one constant refrain: funding. That is … | Elisa Birnbaum | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |
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From Unleashing PhilanthropyFrom: Clean Money Revolution |
Giving away money is an under-realized subset of clean money. The world needs to unleash the charitable sector in solving big problems. Foundations are monumentally important in this. They hold … | Joel Solomon; Tyee Bridge | 18 | 2017 | $1.80 Add |
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From What do the treaties prohibit?From: Sold Down the Yangtze |
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 |
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From What if it was a judicial process?From: Sold Down the Yangtze |
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 |
