It's called the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) and as you read this it's being negotiated in Paris by 29 nations -- with the United States and our own Liberal government playing a lead role.

    The MAI will extend NAFTA to establish a new set of investment rules that grant corporations the right to buy, sell, and move their operations whenever and wherever they want around the world -- without government regulation.

    American officials have said its prime objective is to "protect U.S. investors abroad."

    Almost nobody is talking about it, yet its implications for citizens like yourself are chilling:

    MAI would free corporations of any obligations to you, other Canadian workers and consumers, or the environment.

    MAI would remove regulations requiring foreign companies operating in Canada to hire Canadians.

    MAI would remove Canada's ability to place restrictions on foreign investment.

    MAI would dramatically weaken Canada's ability to create jobs.

    MAI would prevent countries from imposing economic sanctions like those used to end Apartheid in South Africa.

    MAI would threaten our public health care, setting the stage for a two-tiered system.

    MAI would leave Canada's culture at the mercy of U.S. entertainment mega-corporations. 

   MAI has been negotiated with virtually no public discussion or debate.

    MAI hurts you, your family and Canada. And once we sign it, we're virtually locked-in for a period of 20 years.

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Canadian Labour Congress
Citizens Concerned about Free Trade
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