Eleventh-Hour Push to Halt Canada-China Investment Deal

Canada’s investment treaty with China has spurred a last-minute fury of opposition just as the government approaches the end of a waiting period that prevented it from finalizing the agreement.
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Eleventh-Hour Push to Halt Canada-China Investment Deal
Thomas Mulcair took Outremont, Quebec in a by-election in 2007. On Saturday he won the party's leadership content is Toronto, and the title of Leader of the Official Opposition. (Matthew Little/Epoch Times)
Matthew Little
11/1/2012
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10/1/2015
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Canada’s investment treaty with China has spurred a last-minute fury of opposition just as the government approaches the end of a waiting period that prevented it from finalizing the agreement. 

While the deal has been signed, it still needs to be ratified in Parliament, a final move that can be invoked any day now after the mandatory 21 sitting days since being tabled in Parliament, which ends on Thursday.

The government pledges the Canada-China Foreign Investment Protection Agreement (FIPA) will protect Canadian investment in China but has been reticent to see the deal scrutinized in Parliament. 

Opposition parties and critics say the agreement is too important and problematic to be finalized without a closer look.