I want to know how you feel about trade treaties like the TPP and TAFTA agreements, which threaten national sovereignty by giving corporations the legal right to override national laws that they believe will harm their profits. Will you protect our environment and our people by fighting against such international trade agreements? Are you willing to work for the repeal of NAFTA?
Why is this important?
The TPP and TAFTA agreements - called "NAFTA on steroids," currently being negotiated in complete secrecy, will allow trade deals to prevail over any national legislation the trading partners claim decreases their profits. If they pass we will have yielded national sovereignty to corporations, which would be able to successfully sue the US government for recompense for ANTICIPATED profits, prevailing over laws our legislators have passed. With the TPP and TAFTA in place we can forget about environmental protections of any kind, as well as employee rights, minimum wage, and other hard-won gains.
