err Posted August 24, 2005 Report Posted August 24, 2005 Is anyone really naive enough to believe that both the FTA, and NAFTA were really about trade? This whole deal is all about multinational corporate interests being able to export raw material to third world countries and shipping back the finished products duty-free into North America. This is all about corporate profits, and has really nothing to do with bing of benefit to you and I as individuals. Excellent Post.. I agree. Free trade is about "breaking down barriers to trade"... Most people naively think this means taxes. Well, taxes are only the tip of the iceberg that you see sticking out of the water... The most of it is hidden... And that's the way the Mulroney government sought to have it in its inception. Barriers to trade include laws that protect people from toxic chemicals in our environment. There are plenty of examples of NAFTA overruling our own environmental laws. Barriers to trade include subsidizing our own industries (what the yankees are accusing us of doing with softwood lumber).... And PUBLIC HEALTH CARE is a barrier to getting American private health-care providers into Canada..... Free trade is overall a bad thing for Canada.... Quote
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