FIPA Delay Nov. 2 – Canada is not for sale – send a message to the PM about the Nexen takeover and the Canada-China investment deal
Tell Prime Minister Stephen Harper: Canada is NOT for sale | www.leadnow.ca
Click here to send a protest message to the Prime Minister and others.
“The Canada-China FIPA is set for automatic approval on October 31st ….
“Send a message to Prime Minister Harper and your MP: Canada is not for sale, stop the Canada-China FIPA [Foreign Investment Protection Act] and the Nexen takeover….
“Alongside this deal, the Harper government is trying to speed through the sale of Nexen, a major Canadian oil and gas company, to the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), one of China’s massive state-owned oil companies. The $15 billion-dollar Nexen takeover will open the floodgates to a wave of foreign buyouts of Canada’s natural resources.
“If FIPA passes, a Chinese company can take over Canadian resources and then sue Canadian governments – provincial or federal – in secret, if the government does anything that threatens the company’s profits….”