For SEIU-West it's certainly the investor-state dispute settlement that really outlines the corporate bill of rights.
We have in our written submission, for example, that in Poland, they had much of their health care insurance provided by a company called Eureko. They had a state share. When the Polish government put forward the idea to open the shares more so to the private company, Eureko could have had a majority stake. There was public outcry because they did not want to privatize their health care. This was the people speaking, saying, “We don't want this.”
The Polish government then responded, taking back that proposal. Eureko then took this decision to ISDS, and Poland ended up paying, out of their taxpayers' money, $1.6 billion U.S. to Eureko. They didn't even have their shares at that point. That was just the potential for profits.
Eli Lilly, in Canada, has now gone above the Supreme Court of Canada, so how is that democratic? TPP, this agreement, how is that a democratic means when you can go above our law? It's only foreign investors that can do this, so how is that for the well-being of Canadians? It's not.