Deal Reached on Fast-Track Authority for TPP

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Are supporters of this at all concerned about the ISDS courts granting power to multinational corporations over governments (for instance, under the ISDS portion of NAFTA, US-based Lone Pine is suing the Quebec provincial government for banning fracking due to the loss of expected future profits) and/or the massive surveillance and censorship power granted to the owners of IP? Or that pharmaceutical companies can now renew medical patents, making cheaper generics less available? There was even a provision to patent certain surgical procedures, though this was thankfully removed.

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So foreig investors should be more powerful than elected governments? Strikes me as incredibly undemocratic.

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Quebec wants to ban fracking within its borders and is being sued by a private American corporation--not because of income loss but because of loss of expected future profits.

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Let's hope this goes down in flames, then.