Not so Far Fetched after all
Contrary to all the hoo-hah about NZ not giving private corporations the right to sue the NZ Government in secret tribunal’s – papers, released overnight by Public Citizen, show that the nothing could be further from the truth.
It seems that “investor-state’ provisions are front and center enabling private corporatisations to enforcement their ‘rights” in a foreign tribunal system. Yep what they have claimed for the last two years just isn’t true.
Heres the news we have so far
The leak
- Public Citizen’s analysis of the leaked text and guided tour through its provisions
- The leaked document
The News
Huffington Post
NZ Herald
Public Citizen
Well keep updating this page as the story develops (as below)
Jane Kelsey
Radio NZ
NZ should notify the WTO (or whoever) that it will leave the WTO 15 yrs (or whatever period is stipulated in the original NZ-WTO agreement) after such notification. These forms of globalisation amount to slavery for every one, except perhaps the slave drivers.