Category: Food • Water • Community
ARCHIVED: Water and Trade…
A PRIMER ON WATER POLICY AND TRADE ISSUES
Wendy R. Holm, P.Ag.
As Printed in Country Life in BC, December 2001
WATER – The Jurisdictional Issues
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
ARCHIVED: Water Myths
WATER AND NAFTA: A Dozen Reasons Not to Worry and Why They Won’t Hold Water
April 2004
Wendy R. Holm, P.Ag.
ARCHIVED Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and NAFTA
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and NAFTA
(The defense not raised…)
Wendy R. Holm, P.Ag.
ARCHIVED: Farmers’ Resolution to Exempt Water from the NAFTA
The below resolution is shelf ready!
The FARMERS’ RESOLUTION (passed by hundreds of farm groups; see post) would list water (HCCS Tariff Item 22.01) as one of the exempted items in:
Continue reading ARCHIVED: Farmers’ Resolution to Exempt Water from the NAFTA
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”:
ARCHIVED: Canadian Wheat Board Under Attack
Ottawa's destruction of the CWB demonstrates flagrant disregard for farmers, the communities they support, the Canadian west, sustainable public policy, ethical governance and democracy…
COLUMNS
2011
Continue reading ARCHIVED: Canadian Wheat Board Under Attack
Coop Library
LIBRARY…
Co-operative Networks as sources of organizational innovation. Sonja Novkovic and Wendy Holm, pp 51-60. The International Journal of Co-operative Management, Volume 6, No 1.1, Oct 2012.
How does co-op governance differ from governance in privately held firms?