<strong>Written By:</strong> Mike_VC
<strong>Date:</strong> 2007-01-18 13:58:53
<a href="/article/115853429-another-bad-deal-for-canada">Article Link</a>

* Government programs and regulations if they “restrict or impair” investment (Article 3)
* Regulations in one province that are different from those in another (Article 5.1)
* The establishment of new, stricter regulations (Article 5.3)
* Initiatives by one province that the other does not agree with (Article 7.2)

TILMA disputes will be arbitrated by independent panels with the power to penalize governments with fines as high as $5 million for violating the agreement, and governments can be hit with repeated complaints against the same program or regulation. Gary Mar, the cabinet minister responsible for negotiating TILMA for Alberta, says that its dispute resolution process is “everything Canadian business asked for,” and that it means TILMA “is backed by some very big teeth.”

<a href="http://www.canadians.org/DI/issues/TILMA/backgrounder.html">http://www.canadians.org/DI/issues/TILMA/backgrounder.html</a>

   

Time to put these “deal-makers” into a burlap sack and throw them into a fast flowing river, while there is still enough water flowing to carry them downstream.

   

Sorry! That's been sold as well............

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"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
-Max Planck

   

Great response True too

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[juris ignorantia est cum jus nostrum ignoramus]

it is ignorance of the law when we do not know our own rights"

lex ferenda

   

Har! Har!

Sold down the river?!