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Since #Harper is trending, let me take this opportunity to remind everyone that 🇨🇦 is still paying a heavy price for the decade of darkness from his #CPC.
#Conservatives self-servingly claim he’s long gone from office & it’s ridiculous to invoke him. Wrong. #cdnpoli
#Conservatives self-servingly claim he’s long gone from office & it’s ridiculous to invoke him. Wrong. #cdnpoli
There are too many acts of corruption, malice, subterfuge, fraud & blind ideology to possibly list in a Twitter thread. So I’ll just bring up some highlights.
1st. Harper’s secret #FIPA with China, where he sold 🇨🇦 out & tied the hands of all future Cdn governments for 31 years.
1st. Harper’s secret #FIPA with China, where he sold 🇨🇦 out & tied the hands of all future Cdn governments for 31 years.
1. Why did Canada buy TransMountain pipeline?
2. Why can't we ban Huawei?
3. Why does Canada need to compensate Chinese companies for #COVID19 losses?
Answer to all 3 questions: #FIPA, the trade agreement with China that @stephenharper signed.
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thinkpol.ca/2020/04/20/can…
2. Why can't we ban Huawei?
3. Why does Canada need to compensate Chinese companies for #COVID19 losses?
Answer to all 3 questions: #FIPA, the trade agreement with China that @stephenharper signed.
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thinkpol.ca/2020/04/20/can…
FIPA, ratified in 2014, was negotiated by Harper government. It was passed without a vote in Parliament. Fipa, which remains in place until 2045, was signed to ensure that China got a pipeline built from Alberta to BC, among other benefits.
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Under Canada's FIPA, Huawei Canada — as an existing investor that already owns assets and has business relationships here — "can bring a claim at any time against Canada, for any kind of regulatory action."
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