{"id":8233,"date":"2018-10-05T21:26:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T21:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=8233"},"modified":"2018-10-05T21:26:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T21:26:04","slug":"sovereignty-returns-to-great-dominion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=8233","title":{"rendered":"Sovereignty Returns to Great Dominion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"story-h gn-speakable-title\">Arguably scrapping part of NAFTA\u2019s Ch. 11 is Canada\u2019s biggest win with USMCA<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8239 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Court-Painter-Sovereignty-returns.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Court-Painter-Sovereignty-returns.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Court-Painter-Sovereignty-returns-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Court-Painter-Sovereignty-returns-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Welcome removal of a section of \u00a0Chapter 11, Section B., or the Investors-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8238 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Bye-Bye-Chapter-11-Sec-B-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Bye-Bye-Chapter-11-Sec-B-.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Bye-Bye-Chapter-11-Sec-B--300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Bye-Bye-Chapter-11-Sec-B--768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In terms of Canadian sovereignty, Gus Van Harten, a professor at Osgoode Law School and an expert in dispute settlement commented:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of Canada as a whole and our sovereignty, it\u2019s just transformational. It was the No. 1 obstacle to actually calling ourselves an independent country in our entire legal framework, ever since we repatriated the Constitution. It\u2019s as simple as that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arguably scrapping part of NAFTA\u2019s Ch. 11 is Canada\u2019s biggest win with USMCA Welcome removal of a section of \u00a0Chapter 11, Section B., or the Investors-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism. In terms of Canadian sovereignty, Gus Van Harten, a professor at Osgoode Law School and an expert in dispute settlement commented: \u201cIn terms of Canada &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=8233\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sovereignty Returns to Great Dominion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8241,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233\/revisions\/8241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}