Summary Report from the 2nd North American Forum on a People-Centered Approach to Trade
Ottawa, Canada
Monday June 5th, 2006
North American legislators and civil society actors met in Ottawa on June 5 2006 to formulate people-centred alternatives to the deep-integration agenda. The session extended the work of the first Tri-National Forum held May 4-5, 2005, in Washington.
Participants of the Forum worked to build an inventory of the North American actions which affect the way trade has been managed under NAFTA and to examine the Security and Prosperity Partnership Initiative (SPP), two components of the broader neo-liberal market-driven agenda, a legal bill of rights for transnational corporations. NAFTA and NAFTA Plus serve to prevent our respective governments from doing anything that would interfere with corporations' freedom - even when their activities are detrimental to peoples' economic, social and environmental well-being.
The Summary Report aims to document central ideas coming out of the Forum and to raise awareness of solutions that are available to improve and anticipate emerging priorities/actions items which will serve as guidelines for future efforts relating to sectoral strategies, alternatives, parliamentary agendas and research.
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