The other reasons we're opposing the bill is that RCEP has no strong chapters on environmental or workers' rights and, as such, is based on the same neo-liberal paradigm that gave us the TPPA. If anything, RCEP represents a step back from the CPTPPA, because it doesn't have that strong carve-out to protect our environmental legislation and the regulation that that puts in place. There's no environmental chapter at all. Similarly, the agreement doesn't include a workers' rights chapter. Even the TPPA had a very loose workers' rights chapter which recognised that trade agreements could impact on workers' rights and those rights needed to be protected, and that's particularly unfortunate in this agreement because of the amount of manufacturing that occurs in the Asian region and the need to protect workers' rights. 