Is our Canadian government justified in keeping certain policies under wraps? Sierra Club Canada Executive Director John Bennett claims it is not. "Governments feed us a lot of malarkey about why secrecy is essential, but 9 times out of 10, there’s no justifiable reason," says Bennett.
Just last month, at an undisclosed location in Ottawa, 400 delegates from Pacific Rim countries negotiated the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), the latest ‘free trade’ deal our Canadian government claims we need to have.
The Trans Pacific Partnership has an added insult to democracy. It will make countries guarantee the construction of energy export infrastructure. Essentially, Canadians citizens are being told to accept that Northern Gateway, Kinder Morgan and EnergyEast pipelines are beyond the capabilities of either provincial or federal governments to halt. In fact, the federal government is selling out our rights for nearly nothing. No wonder the negotiations are being done behind closed doors.
Read more on John Bennett’s blog, originally published on the Sierra Club Canada website (www.sierraclub.ca): http://www.sierraclub.ca/en/secretscankill