Alliance for Responsible Trade

The North American Forum on a People-Centered Approach to Trade Summary Report will highlight key messages from the collective perspectives of North American progressive legislators and civil society actors in Canada, Mexico and the U.S.
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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