Category: Food • Water • Community

Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting about… Trump’s Interest in Canada’s Most Precious Resource

This page will follow key news reports on Trump’s battle to capture Canada’s water.  As you read them, consider this: In the March 18th Tyee article, the author notes “water is exempt from the NAFTA”.   NOT TRUE. John Crosbie is the one who first got away with this and it is shocking to see it still trotted out . Natural free flowing waters delivered at the whim of Mother Nature are of course not covered. BUT change in any way the timing or volume of Mother Nature’s delivery to meet the need of the market and water becomes a good. … Continue reading Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting about… Trump’s Interest in Canada’s Most Precious Resource

ARCHIVED: Canadian Farm Groups endorsing Farmers’ Resolution to Exempt Water from the NAFTA

Resolutions Received to July 2010

  • Abee Women’s Institute, Alberta
  • Agricultural Producers Assoc. of New Brunswick
  • Alberni Farmers’ Institute, BC
  • Alberta Milk
  • Angus Ridge Women’s Institute, Alberta
  • Argyle Women’s Institute, Alberta
  • Armstrong Women’s Institute, BC
  • Armstrong, Vernon, Lumby Dist. 4-H Council, BC
  • Associated Ginseng Growers of BC

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Why Water is Covered by FTA/NAFTA/CUSMA

Following is a list of NAFTA articles that compromise Canadian sovereignty over our water resources and the proposed amendments that would fix the problem.

#1  Trade agreements apply to “goods”, “services”, “investments”

NAFTA Article 102 “eliminate barriers to trade in, and facilitate the cross border movement of, goods and services between the territories of the Parties, to increase substantially investment opportunities in the territories of the Parties, and to…expand and enhance…”.

#2  Goods are defined by the Harmonized Commodity Coding System”:

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