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Report: Canada loses under ISDS in NAFTA, should let Trump get rid of it

January 18, 2018 at 5:08 PM
Canada has lost hundreds of millions of dollars under NAFTA's investor-state dispute settlement mechanism -- and its negotiators should agree with the Trump administration's proposal to include an ISDS opt-in in a new NAFTA, a Canadian think tank argues in a new report. "To date, Canada has paid out more than $314 million ($219 million to investors and $95 million in legal costs) related to NAFTA Chapter 11 claims," states the report published on Jan. 16 by the progressive Canadian...

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