America is about to make a horrible mistake all over again

[sulphurdunn]

47. You would think

that failure of the signatories to abide by a treaty's provisions (which is what these trade agreements actually are) would nullify them or give the parties the right to either annual or renegotiate them. If I understand this correctly, only private investors and not states my sue under ISDS. It seems unlikely that any private investor would sue a state to enforce that state's labor or environmental laws. And since as state cannot sue to enforce them against a foreign investor it is unlikely that labor and environmental standards in such agreements will be enforced because they would reduce return on investment, which seems to be the over arching purpose of the treaty. If that is true then dispute resolution provisions are more likely to be used to punish states that attempt to enforce labor and environmental provisions than the other way around.