Psst. Heard About The New Trade Deal?

I\'m glad that deals like these are being negotiated. Central Americans will benefit from it both economically and politically and Canada will have contacts with these expanding economies. The people in these countries have lived under autocratic regimes that kept out any business that wouldn\'t pay them, a trade deal takes away the power of these regimes to hijack the economy.

It then allows the multinationals to keep all the money for themselves while they pay slave wages to the impoverished people right after closing their manufacturing outlets in N. America.

Some appeasers will not learn.

In B.C. free trade has been a boon...

to the U.S. that is!

Our softwood lumber dispute took about 1 BILLION dollars away from the province in the form of tarrifs.

The WTO said the U.S. had no cause to do this.

The U.S. kept the money saying they would use it to upgrade their lumber facilities.....hog and wash.

Now raw logs are streaming out of our country into these facilities. So we lose jobs and sawmills. Communities go broke yada yada yada and the beat goes on.

Unions are being decimated, social programs are being seen as anti-trade, jobs are being eliminated.

Business as usual.

Rant over!!!

Anon,

The fact that your happy deals like these are made without public knowing, without public feedback, without being part of a free vote in parliament.

Tells me that you don\'t have any idea what a democratic government is, or maybe you actually want to live under a goverment that doesn\'t use the democratic process.

Whatever the reason why you support a undemocratic approach, it just doesn\'t make sense.

Kevin Gagnon

This anonymous guy should go waste his brainless comments elsewhere.

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Dave Ruston

This just confirms my fears about government, everything is done without our consent, backroom deals which we end up paying for!

The real shame is that trade deals could be good for all involved by bolstering the economies of both countries and raising standards of living, levels of democracy and human rights. Of course a deal like that wouldn\'t need to done on the sly.

Trade deals that are made behind closed doors do the opposite.

In the four short years of Campbell\'s government we will likely no longer have any public assets left. He basically stole all of our resources and gave them away. And then governments wonder why there are terrorists. Dave, this is a guy that shouldn\'t be able to look himself in the mirror. He probably can\'t see his reflection anyway.

We will never have Fair Trade agreements as long as the Corporations are protected by law to work the way they do.

They have to make a profit, by law, and they do it so well.

The whole world should be one level playing field, but that will never happen.



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"Arrogance in Politics is unacceptable"
Jim Callaghan
Minden, Ontario
705-286-1860
www.misterc.ca