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Title: Lock in corporate rights and throw away the key
Description: One of the goals of free trade agreements is to lock in a set of corporate and investor rights — forever, such that these rights can never be repealed through the democtratic process in the interests of people. Since this drawing was done, thankfully, the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) has withered and died on the vine, due in part to popular protest. But Canada and the United States are not giving up their goal of unfettered corporate and investor access to Latin America. In the absence of a hemispheric agreement guaranteeing corporate rights, they continue to try to forge bilateral trade agreements with individual countries.
Originally published in: Globalization: who's winning and who's losing, 2004. Canadian Labour Congress.
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