European-Canadian Free Trade Agreement Documents

https://netzpolitik.org/2014/comprehensive-economic-and-trade-agreement-were-publishing-the-full-set-of-secret-ceta-documents/

by jk4930 • 12 years ago

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xemoka• 12 years ago

Leaked the day that FIPA (the Canada-China trade deal) gets ratified by Prime minister Harper [1].

http://www.vancouverobserver.com/news/harper-oks-potentially...

walterbell5• 12 years ago

"Even if found unconstitutional by a court down the road...once the treaty has been ratified, none of the obligations assumed by Canada can be modified unless China agrees," he said."

Is that assessment based on Canadian law?

josho3• 12 years ago

Why is this not being reported by any of our national news outlets! Instead I'm fed the latest drivel on rob ford.

kleiba2• 12 years ago

Could you try to investigate that question with your usual news providers? I for one would be interested to learn about the reasons, if you can find out any.

mmphosis2• 12 years ago

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-china-investment-trea...

http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/canada-ratifies-investment-de...

http://www.leadnow.ca/stop-fipa/

grossemarde• 12 years ago

Leaked more than a month ago in Germany by Tagesschau http://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/ceta-101.html

jk4930• 12 years ago

But incomplete. And they reduced the number of the available documents.

uokyas• 12 years ago

What does that mean to DRM laws, and Patent laws in the EU. What does trade have to do with those laws?? Every country in EU needs to enforce it? Has it come to that already?

walterbell5• 12 years ago

More info here, http://stopttip.net/data-security-internet-freedom/

walterbell5• 12 years ago

ComputerWorld UK is summarizing TTIP news, a live blog of the slow but steady transition from nation state to corporate lawsuits. The first tier of governance will be done by lawsuit and whatever is left can be done by national governments.

There are implications for all startups: should your incumbent competitor be granted the ability to sue a national government and influence your ability to compete in a geographical market?

A single lawsuit can affect multiple industries, e.g. by changing insurance requirements. For the low low price of one lawsuit, a deep-pocketed competitor can influence multiple nation states and industries, by setting new trans-national "legal" precedent.

http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/ttip-up...

"However, one thing we have learned is that those behind unbalanced laws like SOPA and treaties like ACTA, never give up. If they fail with one, they just try again with another. And so it turns out in the wake of ACTA's demise. We are now witnessing exactly the same secretive approach being applied to TTIP - the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – originally known as TAFTA, the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement."

On a positive note, please share the CC-licensed A2K (Access to Knowledge) Handbook (pdf), http://a2knetwork.org/handbook & http://a2knetwork.org/book

"Access to Knowledge (A2K) is the umbrella term for a movement that aims to create more equitable public access to the products of human culture and learning. The ultimate objective of the movement is to create a world in which educational and cultural works are accessible to all, and in which consumers and creators alike participate in a vibrant ecosystem of innovation and creativity."

walterbell5• 12 years ago

This story was pushed off the front page by three stories that had steadily declined to page 4 over several hours, then suddenly jumped to the front page in 5 minutes.

http://hnrankings.info/8311860,8312295,8312249,8312411/

  #162 -> #25   Server Migration with Zero Downtime
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Edit: HN moderator response in this thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8313505

European-Canadian Free Trade Agreement Documents

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