Canada’s investment treaty with China has spurred a last-minute fury of opposition just as the government approaches the end of a waiting period that prevented it from finalizing the agreement.
While the deal has been signed, it still needs to be ratified in Parliament, a final move that can be invoked any day now after the mandatory 21 sitting days since being tabled in Parliament, which ends on Thursday.
The government pledges the Canada-China Foreign Investment Protection Agreement (FIPA) will protect Canadian investment in China but has been reticent to see the deal scrutinized in Parliament.
Opposition parties and critics say the agreement is too important and problematic to be finalized without a closer look.
