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A Teach-In on the "GATS"
(General Agreement On Trade In Services)





Taped September 21, 2000 at Vancouver Community College,
Organized by Trading Strategies.

First broadcast 30/09/00,
on Rogers Cable 4
Webcast 26/09/00




"Despite the breakdown in global trade talks in Seattle in December 1999, negotiations are now underway at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to radically restructure the role of governmemt worldwide - subjecting an ever-greater degree of governmental decision-making to oversight by the
WTO. The negotiations are aimed at expanding the General Agreement on Trade In Services ( or GATS), a framework agreement that was adopted as part of the Uruguay Round in 1994. Essentially unknown to the public, the agreement is designed to facilitate international business by constraining democratic governance. The talks are taking place behind closed doors in close consultation with international corporate lobbyists."

excerpted from GATS: How the WTO's new 'services' agreement threatens democracy by Scott Sinclair (see below)


The GATS is the latest development at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to further an agenda of privatization and deregulation. It is a major threat to public services and the ability of governments to protect the public interest.

Hundreds packed a lecture hall at Vancouver Community College on Thursday September 21, 2000 to learn about the GATS from Scott Sinclair, Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Ellen Gould and Steve Staples.










Marjorie Griffin Cohen,
Simon Fraser University
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Ellen Gould,
Transnational Institute
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GATS: How the WTO's new 'services' agreement threatens democracy
by Scott Sinclair, a Canadian trade policy specialist with extensive international trade policy expertise. He is currently a senior research associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
Copies are $19.95 available from
CCPA, 410 - 75 Albert Street, Ottawa, ON K1P 5E7
Ph: 613 563 1341
Fax: 613 233 1458





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