Thank you for the opportunity to attend this public consultation today.
I stand before you as a concerned citizen—super nervous. I believe it is our responsibility to protect our natural environment, not only for ourselves and our future generations but also for the plants, the wildlife, and the organisms that our actions affect.
My biggest issue with the TPP is the inclusion of the rights for foreign corporations to sue our government if we make changes to our laws that harm their investments. I cannot see how we'll be able to protect our environment with these restrictions on the creation of our environmental laws.
For this reason, I'm against the TPP agreement.