[AicapAifap] NAFTA

[Alliance of Incarcerated Canadians/Foreigners in American Prisons]

	Aicap,             

	Trump just announced his new plan for the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA),1 and it puts our digital rights at serious risk.   
         

	The proposal includes a notice-and-takedown regime and 25-year
copyright term extensions, which would lead to excessive content
removal and censorship and prevent innovation — and that’s just
what they’re telling us. Even more disastrous measures could be
hidden in the secret details.             

	Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland is in
Washington RIGHT NOW negotiating Canada’s position on NAFTA. We need
to make sure she knows we will not accept these dangerous new rules,
which would wreak havoc on our digital rights.             

	Tell Minister Freeland to not let an IP Chapter into NAFTA.          
  
                         		                         ACT NOW           
             
	The U.S. is trying to reclaim what they gave away when they walked
away from the TPP: The most restrictive copyright rules in the world.2
            

	Trump thinks he can pressure Canada into signing the deal, having
already reached an agreement with Mexico, and is threatening to leave
us behind if we don’t sign on by tomorrow!3             

	But there’s still hope! Canada set a precedent that it won’t
accept bad copyright proposals when it rejected the IP Chapter in the
TPP. And Prime Minister Trudeau has said no deal is better than a bad
deal when it comes to NAFTA4 — and this IP Chapter is definitely a
bad deal for Canada.             

	We’ve won on this before, and we’ll do it again. Let’s make it
clear that Canada will not be bullied into overreaching and
restrictive copyright rules.             

	Send an email to Minister Freeland now, Aicap.             

	Yours for the Internet, 
             Laura, and the OpenMedia team             

	P.S. NAFTA negotiations are moving quickly and it’s going to take
everything we’ve got to keep up with whatever comes next. Will you
chip in to help us ensure we have the resources we need to keep up the
fight?
	Footnotes:
             [1] United States–Mexico Trade Fact Sheet: Modernizing
NAFTA to be a 21st Century Trade Agreement: Office of the United
States Trade Representative
             _[2] Let’s Talk TPP: _OpenMedia
             _[3] Pressure on Canada to forge new trade deal within
days after U.S. and Mexico reach two-way agreement: _National Post
             _[4] NAFTA deal by Friday? 'Only a possibility,' Trudeau
says: __CTV News_                      
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