An analysis by Andrew Nikiforuk of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's recent dealings with China has drawn intense interest, garnering within several days nearly 7,000 Facebook recommends and tweeted over 400 times. The opinion piece, published on the Tyee Thursday and headlined "Chairman Harper and the Chinese Sell-Out" cites the FIPA agreement Harper has completed with China, set to be automatically made law, without requirement of Parliamentary debate, on Nov. 1. Green Party leader Elizabeth May has called for an emergency debate in the House of Commons.
In his piece, Nikiforuk defines what is at stake this way:
"By Nov. 1 three of China's national oil companies will have more power to shape Canada's energy markets as well as challenge the politics of this country than Canadians themselves…
"The new agreement will not only support more foreign takeovers of Canada's natural resources, but pave the way for CNOOC's dramatic $15-billion purchase of Nexen.
"That controversial deal, which the majority of ordinary Canadians oppose, represents the largest-ever overseas takeover of any firm by a Chinese national oil company."
Given the short timeline for making the deal official and strong public interest about what's in it, The Tyee shares here a link to the full text, in English and French, of the Canada-China FIPA and Explanatory Memorandum.
Click here for the PDF.
David Beers is editor of The Tyee.
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SharingIsGood
31 weeks ago
_____Where's the "Canadian" MSM in all of this?
Thank you Andrew Nikiforuk, David Beers and the rest of The TYEE staff for making this known. With 2 short weeks left, do we even have a chance. Welcome to Chinada folks.
freebear
31 weeks ago
Our Home and now Chines Land; True Patriot love-really?
Anything for a buck eh Harper!
freebear
31 weeks ago
Oops - Chinese Land
I meant to type
dunngy59
31 weeks ago
Stephen Harper has less
Stephen Harper has less credibility than ANY Chinese politician,at least they don't pretend to embrace democracy.S Harper is a lying traitor to this country.
Fiat lux
31 weeks ago
Whatever Harper might be, he
Whatever Harper might be, he can sell the country off from under people's feet while he and his "majority" of 39% are in the dictatorial power over our "democracy".
The Chinese communists and the global corporate mafia know that a crash is coming and they want to take control of the world's resources while pimp governments are willing to sell them off for imaginary money.
The crash could be a long term plan to set up a global capitalist/communist dictatorship. Who knows what they're planning behind closed doors ?
Ed Deak
Okanagan Orchardist
31 weeks ago
I hate it when posters like Doreen Winn
Place their ads below their comments in order to take advantage of people gullible enough (like me) who check out the websites. Nice move. NOT! :(
Bernardo
31 weeks ago
"Doreen Winn" is just a "bot"...
... just a piece of code that exploits some loophole in the site's code to place spam disguised as comments.
There might be an actual Doreen Winn, but if so, she had little to do with this appropriation of her name (and it's probably going to cause her a lot of hassle).
Since Tyee doesn't appear to have a spam flag, as such, the simplest thing to do is to flag these spam-bot posts as "objectionable" so the site's monitors are alerted to the problem.
wiley
31 weeks ago
Canada through Chinese eyes
I suspect the Chinese government is laughing all the way to the bank. It sees Canada as one really large underpopulated country full of useful resources, with a clueless government caught up in internecine conflicts of interest. Oh, and that red maple leaf on our flag would look so much better as a star.
Geoff
31 weeks ago
@Bernardo, @OkanaganOrchardist
That's exactly right. These are bots, automated spam. We *do* have a spam filter; we're currently looking into why these ones have started to get through.
Apologies for the frustrations.
Thanks,
Geoff.
Veronica Vaughn
29 weeks ago
Sign the petition against the
Sign the petition against the FIPA Trade Deal here:
http://elizabethmaymp.ca/wp-content/uploads/FIPA-Petition.pdf
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23 weeks ago
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Rahulcube
21 weeks ago
Authorities done a good job
Authorities done a good job in making the availability of Canada-China FIPA and Explanatory Memorandum to the public. This will make the public more aware about the Canada and china relationships and the progress between the assignments between the countries. search here
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21 weeks ago
Good action plan
Making a good awareness in the public with regards to the Canada-China FIPA and Explanatory Memorandum is a nice action taken by the government to rebuild the collapsed relation between both the countries.
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