When leaders from the Western hemisphere head to
Quebec City this weekend to continue negotiations on the
Free Trade Area of the Americas, there’ll be a lot more on the table
than free trade. The FTAA, as it’s called, also establishes the rights
of companies when they deal with foreign governments.
FTAA critics say people take a back seat to corporations
in free trade deals. In the second of a two-part series, the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium’s David Sommerstein tests the
anti-corporate arguments: