Bravo!! The question is: Why is this happening? What sort of reaction can
we anticipate?
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Sent: April 26, 2001 11:11 AM
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Subject: Re: Musings on the FTAA
Maybe a better name would be "Democracy Clawback" -- the idea would be to
guarantee elected governments but abrogate any policies those governments
attempted that interferred with corporate plans. Sort of like the 'choices'
strategy in child rearing: "are you ready for your bath now or would you
rather play five more minutes and then have your bath?" Would you like to
have your water system sold to a trans-national corporation or would you
rather have an election first and then have your water system sold by the
politician who promised not to? Would you like toxic waste dumped upstream
or would you rather vote against it and be fined $100 million dollars for
restricting trade?
Ed Weick mused:
>> Politicians appeared to give particular attention to the so-called
>> "Democracy Clause", which was intended to establish conditions that would
>> exclude non-democratically elected countries from the FTAA.
Chris Reuss volleyed:
>Really ironic as the FTAA is all about the abolition of democracy.
>(Corporations can sue countries if the latter dare to put enviro/social
> regulations in their way.)
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
