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As is the case with countries that are literally invaded, such models of transnational corporate predation destroy economies [vi], as host countries devolve into vassal states bereft of self-determination, unable to address real-world crises such as catastrophic global warming.
If, for example, a foreign company's future profits are perceived to be jeopardized by legislation designed to address global warming, the company can sue for future lost profits in secret tribunals --courtesy of Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) clauses -- all outside the judicial realm of the (previously) sovereign host nation. Meanwhile, social infrastructures are not protected by these Agreements, and they are invariably undermined.
When politicians inaccurately frame these agreements as being about trade -- rather than about transnational corporate sovereignty -- the root causes are again being obscured, and the cures are being denied.
Meanwhile, this blinkered status quo is making us increasingly unable to remediate crises such as global warming, poverty, and permanent war.
Canada is basically being invaded by a New World Order of corporate predation, but Canadians remain unaware, confident that Canada's newly- branded government will protect them and keep them safe.
The terminal disease will continue to metastasize and destroy, unless it is correctly diagnosed and cured. But the cure requires structural change, not the fake change of a new political brand.
By Mark Taliano
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