So pleased @Euan, that I'm not the only one who sees the TPPA as a corporate take-over that could only be supported by democratic gov'ts still labouring under the painfully naive (and usually self-serving) misapprehension that "trickle down" is a thing.

Some might be interested in this precedent: PMI (Philip Morris tobacco corporation) has sued the government of Uruguay for its anti-smoking legislation (health warnings must cover 80% of the packaging) under the auspices of the Switzerland-Uruguay Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) at the World Bank’s International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Morris_v._Uruguay