To the Editor:
The Canada-European Union Trade Agreement has been negotiated behind closed doors. Sadly, it’s about giving more corporate control over all necessities. CETA as written, would:
• Contribute to global climate change and global food and water crises. Transnational mining corporations ignore or challenge Canada’s, Saskatchewan’s and Alberta’s environmental regulations, as disgraceful as they are.
• Deregulate public services and regulations that protect them and privatize them for maximum corporate profits. Wall’s privatization of our crowns and medicare suits CETA’s objectives.
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• Allow European Union private health-service companies to have greater access to health and medicare services, particularly Saskatchewan’s and Alberta’s where expensive surgeries and records are being transferred to private for profit clinics and companies, paid for by the public purse.
• Allow European corporations access to municipal and provincial governments’ purchasing powers.
• Allow transnational corporations to control our food chain.
• Remove the 47 percent foreign control level over broadcasting and communication networks and approve (prime minister Stephen) Harper’s plan to destroy the CBC.
• Support transnational grain companies taking over our farmer controlled Canadian Wheat Board.
• Allow investors’ rights to have precedence over workers’ and aboriginal rights.
Shamefully, Canadian media isn’t sharing CETA’s motives with Canadians.
Joan Bell,
Saskatoon, Sask.
