Canada Colombia FTA now back before Parliament

Legislation to implement the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement is now back before Parliament. In the briefing paper Investor Rights Trump Human Rights, CCPA analyst Scott Sinclair demonstrates how the treaty’s investment chapter pays mere lip service to corporate social responsibility, while giving Canadian mining companies and other investors powerful new rights. Rather than addressing Colombia’s human rights crisis, inserting these new investment rights into this deeply troubled context will effectively chill democratic dissent and tilt the scales further against already disadvantaged, excluded and victimised Colombians.