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Trans-Pacific Partnership A LOOK INSIDE THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, November/December 2016 November/December Alternatives, Policy for Canadian Centre Contributors Ben Lilliston Frank Bayerl is Director of Corporate Vol. 23, No. 4 is a translator by trade who Strategies and Climate ISSN 1198-497X volunteers at the CCPA’s Change at the Institute for Canada Post Publication 40009942 national office in Ottawa and Agriculture and Trade Policy. CCPA Monitor is published six times contributes regularly to the Jen Moore a year by the Canadian Centre for Monitor. is Latin America Program Co- Policy Alternatives. Gail Davidson ordinator at Mining Watch The opinions expressed in the CCPA is a lawyer (retired status) Canada, working to support Monitor are those of the authors communities, organizations and do not necessarily reflect whose work is devoted to and networks in the region the views of the CCPA. promoting global adherence to international human struggling with mining Please send feedback to conflicts. [email protected]. rights and humanitarian law through advocacy, Dr. Pamela D. Palmater Editor: Stuart Trew education and research. She Senior Designer: Tim Scarth is a Mi’kmaw lawyer and is the founder and executive Layout: Susan Purtell member of the Eel River Editorial Board: Peter Bleyer, director of Lawyers’ Rights Bar First Nation in New Kerri-Anne Finn, Seth Klein, Kate Watch Canada. Brunswick. 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REGISTERED CHARITY #124146473 RR0001 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS ON THE COVER THE TPP BEHIND THE NUMBERS AND CANADA 12 The landlords gaming Airbnb in Toronto It’s big, menacing and stands Trish Hennessy and Zohra Jamasi /8 There is no case for LNG in B.C. no chance of improving Marc Lee /9 the Canadian economy or How to support workers hit by cap-and-trade in Ontario sparking global growth. CCPA Meg Gingrich /11 researchers and colleagues FEATURES unpack the embattled Trans- Northern development Pacific Partnership on the eve should benefit northerners of a U.S. election that could Lynne Fernandez /32 B.C.’s Site C dam and First Nations decide the deal’s fate. Gail Davidson and Rohan Shah /36 Murdered Honduran activist’s legacy lives on in her daughter Asad Ismi /40 ARTS Canadian imperialism in Latin America: Jen Moore reviews Blood of Extraction by Todd Gordon and Jeffery Webber /43 Noam Chomsky’s Who Rules the World reviewed by Frank Bayerl /47 NOTE FROM THE EDITOR /2 LETTERS /4 NEW FROM THE CCPA /6 INDEX /27 THE GOOD NEWS PAGE /42 Note from the editor Stuart Trew Continuity and “real change” YEAR AGO, CANADIANS voted for “The Crown’s practice of relying supply chains, not consumers) is in- “real change.” Today, questions solely on engagement activities by timately connected to Canada’s free are being raised about whether industry proponents and complet- trade agenda—the one policy area A the Liberal government is pre- ing the Crown’s consultation obli- where the Liberals and Conserv- pared to deliver on some of its most gations after project decisions are atives in government clearly sing hopeful election pledges. made is wrong-headed and has to from the same hymnbook. With each For example, the party promised end,” wrote Assembly of First Na- new free trade deal the tools Cana- the 2015 election would be “the last… tions Chief Perry Bellegarde in the dian regulators are allowed to use— conducted under the first-past-the- Toronto Star after the Site C green for protecting the environment, en- post voting system.” But months into light. “The practice of forcing First hancing public services, better organ- a cross-Canada public consultation Nations to court because the regula- izing the delivery of private services, on what a new voting system might tory system is not designed to con- or improving food quality standards, look like, Prime Minister Trudeau has sider our rights before decisions are etc.—are fewer and fewer. suggested reform may be less urgent made, has to end.” One of those deals, the Trans-Pa- with the Harper Conservatives out Should we be surprised about the cific Partnership, is the focus of this of power. gap between the government’s rhet- special issue of the Monitor. As ex- In October, the government moved oric and its actions? Probably not. plained in our “Coles Notes” sum- swiftly to ratify the Paris climate For some time, Canada’s two dom- mary and accompanying features, agreement and announced it would inant political parties have shared the TPP will place even more oner- create a national carbon pricing the economic belief that “the mar- ous restrictions on Canada’s ability scheme by 2018. But Environment ket” works best when free of state to protect the environment, expand Minister Catherine McKenna has meddling. Where regulatory agen- the health care system and keep the now said Canada will not revisit the cies have sought to respond to new cost of medicines down, transition Conservative government’s low tar- public needs or new science (e.g., on away from fossil fuels to a more re- get of reducing greenhouse gas emis- GMO labelling, plain packaging laws newable energy and industrial mod- sions by 30% under 2005 levels by on tobacco, bans on likely toxic chem- el, and meet its obligation to consult 2030—a target Canada will not even icals or more activist climate policy) with First Nations on all matters af- be able to meet because of planned they have been frequently shut down fecting their international and trea- expansion in the fossil fuel sector. by politicians or powerful corporate ty rights. The pursuit of new energy pipe- interests. Responding to public and some lines and other megaprojects—a cor- The National Energy Board has be- business concerns about the TPP, nerstone of Conservative economic come a rubber stamp for fossil fuel the Liberal government has been policy—has been unaltered so far megaprojects, for example. Health consulting for the past year on by the government’s stated goal of Canada seems more interested in ap- whether Canada can ratify the deal working toward real reconciliation proving new GMOs, based on indus- or not—a decision the prime minis- with First Nations.
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