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Thread: 1/Policy makers push on to stoke globalization backlash in new NAFTA.
2/A few unnoticed sentences in agreement gut Canadian privacy protections. wapo.st/2ybaiV6?tid=ss…
3/Insistence on liberalization at the expense of consumer protection stokes fears that free trade is a trojan horse for the rich and powerful companies a la Silicon Valley.
4/This case is even worse as it strips Canadians of protections against a Snowden-like event.
5/Equally important, this is likely a case where the Canadian government colludes with US to block province level activism on the issue. michaelgeist.ca/2017/12/canadi…
6/Data privacy issues in Nafta might seem small but these add up. See GMO debate in Europe or fight over ISDS.
7/Calling global Polanyi! Support for free trade is sustainable when it is embedded in a reasonable set of protections instead of gutting them. Better to fine ways to allow mutual recognition or interfaces (doi.org/10.1017/S00208…)...or face even a bigger backlash.
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