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UPDATE October 1, 2018: Canada has agreed to a revised trade agreement with the United States and Mexico, now known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) and our worst fears for digital rights have become true: the deal contains draconian intellectual property and copyright provisions that are basically copied from the TPP.1

But it doesn't end here! The government is currently reviewing the Copyright Act, so make sure to have your say here. The agreement will also now begin a lengthy approval process in which the government will continue to hear from its citizens and decision makers before it rubber stamps the deal. So we must keep up the pressure from every direction and make sure the government knows we won't just let our Internet get traded away.

Negotiators and top decision-makers could be putting your digital rights at risk as part of the renegotiations on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). 1

We saw firsthand how the TPP was a disaster for digital rights and our democracies — and we can’t afford to let that happen with NAFTA.

We need to make sure that our voices are as loud as possible from the very beginning of this process: we cannot let NAFTA sacrifice our digital rights.

Read the full petition here Minister Chrystia Freeland

Ambassador Robert Lighthizer

Minister Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal NAFTA has the potential to impact critical functions of the Internet, and if not properly addressed could significantly threaten innovation, access to information, the dissemination of news, cultural exchange, artistic creation and democratic organizing. We call on the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States to reform the trade process to ensure that voices of the public are heard throughout the negotiations, and providing citizens access to negotiating texts, decision-makers, and real consultation is built into the process from the very beginning. We also call on all three governments to ensure that where policies that affect the Internet are concerned, there are strong and enforceable provisions to protect the interests of Internet users and the public at large. We ask you to fight the inclusion of rules that allow corporations to attack democratic policies in unaccountable tribunals. They threaten to undermine the ability of each country to craft regulations that are in the best interest of their citizens and residents, and undermine public trust in trade. We saw firsthand how the TPP was a disaster for digital rights and our democracies — and we can’t afford to let that happen with NAFTA. Any process that our governments engage in on our behalf must be founded in an open, transparent, and democratic process, while also protecting the Internet and our online rights that make such global connections possible. Thank you

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