Professor Jane Kelsey speaks about the insidious TPPA - Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement

Published: Nov. 5, 2014, 9 p.m.

b'Could you imagine that any government would be stupid enough to sign an international agreement that would allow overseas corporations to sue it, in secretive offshore tribunals, claiming that new laws and regulations have seriously undermined the value of their investments? Well, that is what our New Zealand Government and eleven other countries around the Pacific Rim are negotiating right now.'