&gt;<i>Sometimes I just want to think those treaties&#x27; function is to curtail multinationals, so that countries can be able to effectively organize themselves against those corporations who have become hard to regulate in a context of globalization.</i><p>Huh? Those treaties are the wet dream of multinationals and all about further &quot;globalization&quot; (of private interests).<p>That&#x27;s the very reason they are kept closed.