New Canadian Ambassador To US To Speak About Deep Integration

One of these days people will wake up to the fact that these so called "free trade agreements" have little, or nothing to do with trade. Although they're labelled as "agreements" to file them under a different legal category, in fact they're nothing less than international treaties to deprive communities and countries of their democratic decision making powers and place them under the control of multinational corporate dictatorships. The rules and laws of these treaties control everything down to the municipal garbage collection and building bylaw levels. When anything interferes with the profit making ambitions of foreign companies, they have the right to sue at secretive 3 person Star Chamber panels without accountability, or public records. As UPS is suing Canada against Canada Post delivering parcels. They can't sue in the USA, only in Canada and Mexico, under NAFTA and WTO rules.

Another solid fact is that all forms of competition increase physical, therefore, monetary costs. We can see this in our daily lives. The only way to cut costs is through cooperation, not competition. The sole purpose of monetary economic competition is to increase and transfer costs on a wider base, other sectors and the environment, while collecting increasing profits. Profits are a form of taxation. When companies and governments are "outsourcing", "cutting services and costs" "cutting wages to be more competitive", "restructuring and merging to be more efficient", they're transferring huge costs on society, because "Wealth can not be created only taken" and "Costs can not be cut, only transferred" (These are part of my Efficiency Principle, dating back 20 years, copyrighted in 1991 to establish the date, not for monetary purposes) Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.

Besides, they also get our tax dollars through the ability to write everything and I do mean everything off plus grants and favours and enticements. So they are always in a 'win-win' situation and we - well we MAY (not a certainty) get a job out of it.