To the extent that corporations from the TPP zone feel that we are taking measures to deal with climate that reduce their potential for future profit, then we face lawsuits.
We're facing new environmental lawsuits now. A well-known one is by Calgary-based Lone Pine Resources, which is suing Canada under NAFTA because it's registered in Delaware, even though it does all of its business in Canada. This Canadian or American company is suing us under NAFTA because of the moratorium on fracking in the St. Lawrence valley in the province of Quebec.
That is an example of how this investor-state system is fundamentally challenging our democracy, because in that example in Quebec, the Parti Québécois ran in an election campaign and said they would like to implement a fracking moratorium. They won the election, they implemented the moratorium, and they fulfilled their campaign promise. Now we're facing a $250-million lawsuit.
We will face more examples like that, I would predict.