OUR WATER

Europe is home to the largest water corporations in the world who can only expand when public utilities are privatized. CETA would limit how our governments regulate the profit-making activities of private water corporations, give multinational water companies unprecedented access to our drinking water services and maybe even a claim to our precious water itself.

OUR ENVIRONMENT

The CETA will allow transnational corporations to ignore or challenge our existing environmental regulations, and make it much harder for our governments to create new ones.

It will also encourage more extraction, production and trade, all of which increase greenhouse gas emissions at a time we should be drastically
lowering them.

OUR JOBS

It would allow European corporations unrestricted access to the purchasing contracts of our governments.

So instead of purchasing the goods and services they need from local companies, and therefore boosting job creation in our local communities, our governments may be forced to use our tax dollars to create jobs and business opportunities in Europe instead!

OUR MEDICARE

The EU wants all of our public services covered by the CETA – including health care. This will expose our medicare to even more privatization pressures than past free trade deals did.

Other CETA reforms mean higher generic drug costs. Since drug costs are the leading cause of increased health care budgets across the country, it will threaten the sustainability of our public system.

OUR DEMOCRACY

Our elected governments should be able to regulate on our behalf, make policies and decisions in the public interest, and use our tax dollars to support local economies when needed.

If the CETA trade rules put corporate and investor rights first, then it is a fundamental threat to our democratic system!