A Vancouver-based environmentalist group is joining the opposition toward a new sweeping trade deal the federal government intends to sign with China this week.
Tzeporah Berman, co-founder of ForestEthics, says Ottawa plans to enact an agreement on Thursday that has heard little public debate, and therefore threatens democracy.
So her group is calling for a delay on the proposed Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act, or FIPA, until Canadians can get more information.
“Prime Minister Harper’s putting into motion one of the most controversial and binding investor agreements ever – and one of that many Canadians have simply never heard of."
The agreement has been widely criticized for putting Canadian taxpayers on the hook if Chinese investors sue, should a federal or provincial government pass a law that interferes with their profit.