Hi, I'm Mike Bradley, and I'm just representing myself as a citizen of Canada.
I find it appalling that we would lose some of our democratic rights to this deal. In other words, we have the right, as of now, to set our own environmental laws, our own economic policy to some degree, although that's been eroded by NAFTA. It is just appalling that a group of very wealthy investors should demand our resources, our materials, to take them away, and not only take them away, but also avoid the taxes in paying for the resources. The few jobs we'll get will not last long, and the monies will be exported offshore and into tax havens.
It really is an appalling deal, and our trade webs have been appalling deals for Canada. We built a country with our own purpose in mind and now we are opening it up to the world, which theoretically could be a good thing, but it's a bad thing if we are degraded in opening it up to the world; in other words, our citizens have to accept lower standards that we tried to avoid, that we tried to flee from, and now we have to accept them just to make a few people rich.
Thank you.