The New NAFTA Is a Steaming Load
Published at 07:28 on 8 October 2018
Some examples:
- It forces a restrictive intellectual property rights regime on all signers, making copyright law significantly more oppressive in Canada and Mexico,
- It expands patent protection so that US-owned drug companies can gouge the ill and desperate for a longer time,
- It contains exemptions for the oil industry, to protect it from attempts by Mexico to re-nationalize it, and
- It enshrines the concept of corporate personhood.
See here and here for details. Carp on these, and the Democrats have a good pretext for deep-sixing it.