Email Your MP: Tell them to Stop The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
Trade deals like TTIP, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, will hand big corporations power to sue governments and extract millions of taxpayers' money in tenuous compensation claims.
These deals undermine our democracy by giving corporations the power to sue governments and are rightly attracting a lot of criticism. But governments in Europe, including the UK, the US and Canada are determined to press ahead regardless.
David Cameron tells us that the UK won't get sued, but this isn't true. In January this year, under a similar deal, a Canadian company took action against the US government demanding $15 billion for a cancelled oil pipeline. Canada is in turn getting sued by a US company for suspending fracking under a specific river.
2016 is a make or break year for trade deals like TTIP. Put pressure on your representatives to stop this threat to our democracy. Sign now to send an email to your MP telling them that trade deals like TTIP are unacceptable.
These deals undermine our democracy by giving corporations the power to sue governments and are rightly attracting a lot of criticism. But governments in Europe, including the UK, the US and Canada are determined to press ahead regardless.
David Cameron tells us that the UK won't get sued, but this isn't true. In January this year, under a similar deal, a Canadian company took action against the US government demanding $15 billion for a cancelled oil pipeline. Canada is in turn getting sued by a US company for suspending fracking under a specific river.
2016 is a make or break year for trade deals like TTIP. Put pressure on your representatives to stop this threat to our democracy. Sign now to send an email to your MP telling them that trade deals like TTIP are unacceptable.
Dear [MP name],
There is a series of trade deals currently being secretly negotiated on our behalf. The Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership, (TTIP), Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) could all introduce huge changes to the way we trade and to the influence corporations will have over our lives.
These deals will give corporations the right to sue if you pass any law or regulation they disagree with. Legal suits against vital environmental protection, public health measures or any decision to raise the minimum wage, could become increasingly common. Corporations will also get a huge say in generating new regulations, which means safety and the interests of ordinary people could come second to the interests of big business and shareholders.
The UK government is trying to convince us that somehow it will not face such legal proceedings. The US government thought it was similarly immune but is now facing a claim for $15 billion from TransCanada, an energy infrastructure company, after the US cancelled the environmentally damaging Keystone XL pipeline last year.
The truth is, the UK has mainly been party to bilateral agreements with poorer countries which haven't got corporations investing in the UK. Canada and the United States have such corporations, and those corporations have teams of lawyers looking to protect their profits wherever possible.
These deals have a huge impact on our lives and should therefore be debated by both the European Parliament and in Westminster, along with other national parliaments across the EU. Anything less would be a denial of democracy.
CETA, between the EU and Canada, is due for ratification at the European parliament later this year, I ask you to ensure that this is quickly followed by national parliamentary votes.
[Your comment will be inserted here]
I hope you will also join the growing number of European representatives, at all levels of government, who are rejecting these secret and undemocratic deals.
Yours sincerely,
[Your name will be inserted here]
[Your address will be inserted here]
Sign PetitionSign PetitionThere is a series of trade deals currently being secretly negotiated on our behalf. The Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership, (TTIP), Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) could all introduce huge changes to the way we trade and to the influence corporations will have over our lives.
These deals will give corporations the right to sue if you pass any law or regulation they disagree with. Legal suits against vital environmental protection, public health measures or any decision to raise the minimum wage, could become increasingly common. Corporations will also get a huge say in generating new regulations, which means safety and the interests of ordinary people could come second to the interests of big business and shareholders.
The UK government is trying to convince us that somehow it will not face such legal proceedings. The US government thought it was similarly immune but is now facing a claim for $15 billion from TransCanada, an energy infrastructure company, after the US cancelled the environmentally damaging Keystone XL pipeline last year.
The truth is, the UK has mainly been party to bilateral agreements with poorer countries which haven't got corporations investing in the UK. Canada and the United States have such corporations, and those corporations have teams of lawyers looking to protect their profits wherever possible.
These deals have a huge impact on our lives and should therefore be debated by both the European Parliament and in Westminster, along with other national parliaments across the EU. Anything less would be a denial of democracy.
CETA, between the EU and Canada, is due for ratification at the European parliament later this year, I ask you to ensure that this is quickly followed by national parliamentary votes.
[Your comment will be inserted here]
I hope you will also join the growing number of European representatives, at all levels of government, who are rejecting these secret and undemocratic deals.
Yours sincerely,
[Your name will be inserted here]
[Your address will be inserted here]
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