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21 May 2021
Trade agreements transfer essential public services like health, education, and water into unaccountable private hands, leaving the public with only trivial consumer choices.

Take, say, these trade agreements are coming along. One crucial part of them is to take what are called services and hand them over to private power. Well, services are just about anything that people would care about. Health, education, water, anything that would be in the public arena where people would want to make decisions. That has to be taken out of the public arena, put into private hands, unaccountable private hands, and then what's left for the public is which kind of shoes I buy.