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Quotable Quotes and Facts of Note:
Over 70,000 protestors were present at the conference
Daniel Seligman of the Sierra club on CNN news, Nov.29,1999:
"The WTO aims to eliminate what they are calling non-tariff trade barriers. And a lot of those trade barriers are actually hard-won environmental and food safety precautions."
A U.S. ban on importing shrimp from countries that don't protect sea turtles was overtuned by the WTO after India, Pakistan, Malaysia and Thailand challenged it.(CNN 29/11/1999)
The EU banned U.S. beef treated with growth hormones. The U.S. appealed to the WTO and the ban was overturned.(CNN 29/11/1999)
In 1993, the very first WTO panel ruled that a regulation of the U.S. clean Air Act, which required both domestic and foreign producers alike to produce cleaner gasoline, was illegal. (Globe and Mail, Dec.3, 1999)
The Canadian government gave up the hope of getting a statement protecting culture against global trade forces into the WTO's final declaration. ( Globe and Mail, Dec.3, 1999)
Canadian policies protecting domestic magazines from U.S. competition were struck down 2 years ago after the U.S. launched a challenge (Globe and Mail, Dec.3, 1999)
Editor's Quote: The problem with all of the above decisions, right or wrong, is that they over-ride national sovereignty. The rights of nations to determine their own laws for their own people. Somehow the concept of "democracy" escapes the globalists entirely. They believe that they are better able than our elected officials, to determine our environmental and trade policy.