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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  The OECD’s War on Offshore Tax Evasion 1996-2014From: International Tax Evasion in the Global Information Age |
Examination of the relationship between exchange of information mechanisms and the goals of international tax law in addressing the threat of tax havens and preferential tax regimes. | David Kerzner; David W. Chodikoff | 45 | 2016 | $4.50 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  International Recognition of Our Proprietary Rights |
Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel examines the economic interests of Indigenous people and Canada’s disregard for proprietary rights with emphasis on the forestry industry in British … | Arthur Manuel | 6 | 2017 | $0.60 Add |
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From  The Return of BarbarismFrom: The Return of History |
From The Return of History: Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century | Jennifer Welsh | 61 | 2016 | $6.10 Add |
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From  The Right to Safe Water and Crown-Aboriginal Fiduciary LawLitigating a Resolution to the Public Health Hazards of On-reserve Water Problems |
Exploration of whether fiduciary law could allow Indigenous peoples living on reserves to gain consistent access to safe drinking water. | Constance MacIntosh | 607 | 2014 | $60.70 Add |
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From The Role of Canada’s Tax Information Exchange Agreements in the Fight against Offshore Tax EvasionFrom: International Tax Evasion in the Global Information Age |
Examination of the role of Canada’s tax information exchange agreements in the exchange of information with foreign jurisdictions. | David Kerzner; David W. Chodikoff | 44 | 2016 | $4.40 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 Safety Mangement of Ships |
Examination of the regime of international law, regional controls, national regulatory systems, and industry requirements designed to protect ships, those who sail on them, and the marine … | Aldo Chircop; Edgar Gold; Hugh M. Kindred; William Moreira | 60 | 2016 | $6.00 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 |
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From  The TPP and Cultural Diversity |
Alexandre Maltais discusses how the TPP turns away from values enshrined in the 2005 UNESCO convention on cultural diversity, and toward the notion that culture is merely a commodity like any other. | Alexandre Larouche-Maltais | 16 | 2016 | $1.60 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 |
