My major concern about the Trans-Pacific Partnership is that it is an improvement on NAFTA from one perspective, and not an improvement from another perspective. It's an improvement from an investor perspective. The concern is the fact that the ISDS mechanism is a mechanism that's placed in the governance system, and it shouldn't be there. It doesn't improve the system. Information flow in governance often isn't improved by creating control points in that system, and that's what it is. The ISDS mechanism is a control point between legislators and enforcement of regulation.
Now, I understand that it doesn't actually prevent us from creating legislation, but when I know that I can get a traffic ticket for speeding, that does affect my behaviour. In the past the government has changed regulation when they were faced with lawsuits over ISDS. This is about sovereignty and our ability to protect ourselves.