TPPA Cartoons
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Exhibition Opening
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Friday June 14th
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5.30 p.m.
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WEA hall
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59 Gloucester Street
Christchurch
TPPA Cartoons
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), currently under negotiation between New Zealand, the US and ten other Asia/Pacific countries, poses a grave danger to our economy, our environment, our health and our ability to shape our own future.
Here are some of the reasons why
• Most restrictions on foreign investment will be frozen and rolled back even further.
• Big overseas companies will be able to sue the New Zealand government for millions in damages in secretive offshore tribunals, claiming that new laws and regulations (for example, a ban on fracking, smoking control laws, or a cap on electricity prices) have seriously undermined the value of their investments.
• Medicines will become more expensive as big pharmaceutical companies gain more influence over PHARMAC, and restrictions are placed on generic medicines
• Copyright laws will be toughened and more harshly enforced, restricting internet freedom and access to information, costing libraries, schools, and businesses, and stifling innovation.
• Parallel importing will be banned, meaning that New Zealanders, especially the poor, will have to pay far more for all sorts of ordinary products.
• Foreign banks, insurance companies and money traders will gain more powers to challenge laws designed to prevent another financial crisis; and overseas property dealers could contest moves to burst the property bubble, such as a capital gains tax.
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