‘Very Big Teeth’ Threaten Campbell’s Green Ambitions

TILMA trade agreement would penalize his plans

By Murray Dobbin
TheTyee.ca
February 21, 2007

Good grief, as Charlie Brown would say. B.C. and Alberta signed the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA) last April and it comes into force this coming April Fool’s Day. Yet the ministers responsible for TILMA in B.C. and Alberta don’t seem to have a clue what they have got their governments into.

Alternatively, they do know the serious impacts TILMA will have and are just not willing to come clean with the public.

How else to make sense of the bizarre pronouncements about TILMA B.C. and Alberta officials are making?

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