The E.U. and Canada Trade Agreement (CETA)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/06/transatlantic-trade-partnership-ttip-canada-eu

"Ceta claims to be a trade treaty, but many of its provisions have little to do with trade. They are attempts to circumscribe democracy on behalf of corporate power. Millions of people in Europe and Canada want to emerge from the neoliberal era. But such treaties would lock us into it, allowing the politics we have rejected to govern us beyond the grave."

" Like TTIP, it uses a broad definition of both investment and expropriation to allow corporations to sue governments when they believe their “future anticipated profits” might be threatened by new laws.

"Corporate lobbyists and their captive governments have been seeking to impose such treaties for more than 20 years, starting with the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (it was destroyed, like TTIP, by massive public protests, in 1998). Working in secrecy, without democratic consent, they will keep returning to the theme, in the hope of wearing down our resistance."

The problem: corporations striving to supersede gov't rules and regulations based upon their 'right' to make foreseeable profits in the future. When gov't/public needs conflict with corporations 'rights' to profit...hence the conflict.

 

to be fair: corporations employee people and sometimes the rules and regulations of entrenched gov'ts also impede the progressive needs of people. In the end, corporations and gov'ts are supposed to be about serving people's needs. The question will always be, which do that better, if at all?