Another Brain-Dead Harper Moment

[JWayne625]

For all of you anti-Harper, anti-USA factions on this thread, you should remember this.... It wasn't Harper that signed these flawed Free-Trade agreements. Whenever someone agrees to sign deals with "Big Brother" you have one thing to remember, and that is Big Brother is not going to sign away the advantage he already holds. Let's remember that it is Canada that need access to US markets not the US needing access to our markets. We already had a very large trade surplus with the U.S. without these agreements in place, why did we go ahead and screw that up by signing agreements that left us open to exploitation? Those agreements were adventageous for the corporate sector not for ordinary Canadian's.

What happen almost immediately upon the signing of those agreements was the corporate sector starting to close manufacturing plants on this side of the border, because those agreements gave them access to the Canadian market without duties and tariffs. Before that it was these duties and tarrifs that enticed them to keep manufaturing plants in this country. Now with the signing of NAFTA those same corporatre interests are now closing their plants in the US. in favour of Mexico and S.A.where they can manufacture these same goods at very low labour costs, and ship them back into the US and Canada duty and tariff free. Let's not fool ourselves by thinking corporations are our friends. These borderless entities are all about maximizing their profits for their shareholders, and duties, tariffs, and wages & benefits are business expenses they would rather do without.

Along comes the a Canadian PM that has a hate on for the USA, and did everything he could to piss them off. Then he allows loud mouth MP's to call our largest trading partner nasty names like some out-of-control child in a school yard, and the PM by not condemning it gave the perception of condoning it. So what happens she does it again under another Lieberal PM, and still nothing happens to her. The border is not open for Canadian beef, what I can't figure out why anyone is surprised by that. Come on people you can't expect to piss off your largest trading partner by calling them nasty names and expect that things are going to be okay, especially if the someone doing the name-calling is an elected representative of our national government. If she truly think's that of them and vocalizes it, then she really does not know what her responsibilities are as a representative of the people. She very well might not like what they do or say, but her place is to act diplomatically and not just shoot off her mouth. Her ramblings may have hurt people's livelihoods with her name-calling and if she truly cares about Canadian's she should resign her seat and let someone stand for office that has enough smarts to know when to speak and when to keep unhelpful comments to themselves.

[Bro]

msyrup,what do your beloved ndp supporting unions have to say about this issue?Will it not make it harder for them to gaurantee their members job security if there is more interruption at borders,and a Canadian product can't get through to the US to be sold,thereby nulling the need for further production of goods in Canada?

[caesar]

Along comes the a Canadian PM that has a hate on for the USA, and did everything he could to piss them off. Then he allows loud mouth MP's to call our largest trading partner nasty names like some out-of-control child in a school yard, and the PM by not

No, along came an American president with disdain for Canada and our Prime Minister. Remember, Bush and family are close friends of Mulroney.

I think in the beginning, Chretien did his best to pretend that Canada and himself were not being snubbed.