Jane Kelsey:
‘The National Government will today ignore widespread opposition from ordinary New Zealanders when it signs the secretly negotiated deal. Doubtless we’ll be fed the old Anzus line that New Zealand can’t afford to not to be at the table.
National’s glitzy new “TPP fact” page is bad wine repackaged in new bottles. Here’s a few facts they don’t tell you. The projected economic gains of 0.9 per cent of GDP by 2030 are within their own margin of error, even before costs are factored in and disregarding unrealistic modelling.
More than 1600 US companies, the most litigious in the world, will gain new rights they can enforce through private offshore tribunals if/when regulation damages their value or profits.
The agreement guarantees foreign states and corporations a right of input into regulatory decisions, which Maori, trade unions, small businesses and local government would not have.
National never wanted us to debate these and other issues and hid instead behind a shroud of secrecy…’
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Watch the stock options of key Nationals take off as if guided by some sort of benevolent deity.
yep.
Germany and Russia had a treaty once. The TPP is like all treaties – time will tell who wins and the powerful or devious will ignore it if it suits them.
I’m wondering , if it’s so “secret” how do those opposed to it know so much about it ? The suggestion as I understand is that we will have no choice but to purchase things that we don’t want ?
It’s a bloody sight more than that, Steve, or were you being..um..ironic or something?
Jane Kelsey is hardly a recommendation!
I agree with you there. But that doesn’t make what she’s saying untrue.
What I can glean from the few reliable reports on this trade deal is that an OBS ure lawyer working for a multinational company can force your government to reverse legislation or make compensation if that legislation adversely affected company profits. Any government servant agreeing to this ought to be stabbed in the eye with the pen used to sign away any semblance of individual freedom – repeatedly. How can this idea have first of all been thought up, and secondly warmly welcomed by allegedly democratic independent nations? We’ve gone to war for less!
Obscure. Sorry.
It’s not a trade deal, it’s a surrender of sovereign rights to Obama’s chums.