In December 2010, CIAM, Panama's leading environmental law centre, testified before the Standing Committee on International Trade. It stated the following with regard to the supplementary agreement on the environment associated with the Free Trade Agreement between Canada and Panama:
The so-called environmental agreement, in chapter seventeen of the FTA, is made up of three articles that amount to a non-binding declaration of principles or good intentions. It then constitutes a non-self-executing treaty, the implementation of which relies on political will.
Do you share that opinion?