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The Australian government decided in 2011 it would stop including these rights and investor-state dispute settlement in its trade and investment agreements. Many countries, including South Africa and India, are rethinking their investment treaties because of the way corporations and law firms have abused them to undermine democracy and public policies globally. Several Latin American countries are cancelling their investment treaties for the same reason.

In 1998, European and Canadian opposition to investor-state dispute settlement put an end to the planned Multilateral Investment Agreement, which would have extended these extreme investor protections to the entire OECD region. In the same spirit and in light of the rebirth of this failed corporate project in the Canada-EU trade deal, the European, Canadian and Quebec groups listed below "demand that the EU and Canada cease negotiating investor rights and an investor-state dispute settlement process into the CETA."

To read the full statement: http://tradejustice.ca

Endorsed in Europe: 11.11.11 (Belgium), AITEC (France), ACV-CSC (Belgium), Attac Austria (Austria), Attac-France (France), Attac Liege (Belgium), ATTAC VLAANDEREN (Belgium), Both Ends (Netherlands), Center for Research and Documentation Chile-Latin America (Germany), CFTC, Confederation francaise des travailleurs chretiens (France), CNCD - 11.11.11 (Belgium), Corporate Europe Observatory (Belgium), Ecologistas en Acion (Spain), European Federation of Public Services Unions (EPSU), European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), Fairwatch (Italy), Food & Water Europe, Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII - Germany), FTM-CGT (France), Global Social Justice (Belgium), International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Labour, Health and Human Rights Development Centre (Nigeria), PowerShift (Germany), Stichting Vrijschrift (Netherlands), SOMO (Netherlands), Transnational Institute (Netherlands), World Economy, Ecology & Development (Germany), Zukunftskonvent (Germany)

Endorsed in Canada: Canadian Association of University Teachers, Canadian Auto Workers, Canadian Environmental Law Association, Canadian Federation of Students (CFS-FCEE), Canadian Health Coalition, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Common Frontiers, Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP), Council of Canadians, Greenpeace Canada, Hupacasath First Nation, National Farmers Union, National Union of Public and General Employees, Ontario Council of Hospital Unions, Polaris Institute, Public Service Alliance of Canada, Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, Sierra Club Canada, (Tsalalh) Seton Lake Indian Band, Trade Justice Network, United Steelworkers

Endorsed in Quebec: Reseau quebecois sur l'integration continentale (RQIC), Alliance du personnel professionnel et technique de la sante et des services sociaux (APTS), Alternatives, Association canadienne des avocats du mouvement syndical (ACAMS-CALL), Association quebecoise des organismes de cooperation internationale (AQOCI), Attac-Quebec, Centrale des Syndicats democratiques (CSD), Centrale des Syndicats du Quebec (CSQ), Confederation des Syndicats nationaux (CSN), Conseil central du Montreal metropolitain (CCMM-CSN), Eau Secours!, Federation des femmes du Quebec (FFQ), Federation etudiante collegiale du Quebec (FECQ), Federation etudiante universitaire du Quebec (FEUQ), Federation interprofessionnelle de la sante du Quebec (FIQ), Federation des travailleurs et travailleuses du Quebec (FTQ), Ligue des droits et libertes, Mouvement d'education populaire et d'action communautaire du Quebec (MEPACQ), Reseau quebecois des groupes ecologistes (RQGE), Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique section Quebec (SCFP-Quebec), Syndicat de professionnelles et professionnels du gouvernement du Quebec (SPGQ), Union des consommateurs



Contacts:
Bruno Ciccaglione
Seattle to Brussels network
bruno.ciccaglione@alice.it

Pierre-Yves Serinet
Reseau quebecois sur l'integration continentale (RQIC)
+1 (514) 276-1075
rqic@ciso.qc.ca

Stuart Trew
Trade Justice Network
+1 (647) 222-9782
TJN.RCJ@gmail.com