Canadian Chamber Of Commerce Supports Deep Integration

Say goodbye to nations, culture, history, innovation, quality of life and tradition says Ms. Hughes. We have money to make in foreign lands.

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The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfield deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.

- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, The Iraqi Informat

I think we should oppose deeper integration with the USA on the grounds that their government is guilty of war crimes and we do not wish to aid and abet them.

The individuals who run businesses are living in a dream world if they believe that more integration is the answer to their problems. They do not understand how the US political system is set up. It does not matter what agreements the Americans sign. Our federal executive powers gives them the power to enforce trade deals, the American system does not. All a "rules based" system does is transfer power to a highly politicized court system in the United States. This is why business people make poor politicians.

Yes, I thought it was interesting that the Chamber of Commerce would include those lines about Canada needing to play a role in "peace and security". What does that mean exactly? Because while war is destabilizing, meaning peace time can be better for commerce, at the same time companies often make a mint off of war profiteering. Or is the Chamber just saying that to have a good economy we need to keep the US happy, like by participating in their wars, as Cellucci and other Bush administration officials always imply?

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Now call it extreme if you like, but I propose we hit it hard, and we hit it fast, with a major, and I mean major, leaflet campaign.--Rimmer, Red Dwarf

ms hughes said we need positive political relations, which I don't have a problem with. it's the strong economic ties that i don't want & i don't think anyone else really wants except the business community.

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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va

The Chamber of Commerce is either populated with idiots, or crooks, trying to sell the remainder of Canada to a bankrupt, dead end society with an irrepayable debtload approaching $50. trillion and a government owned and controlled by big business.This brings up the question, how many of the Chamber's member corporations are controlled from the USA under NAFTA, that gives corporations immediate "national status" ? In other words, are these Canadians speaking, or boardrooms abroad, or paid off quislings? The purpose of so called "free trade" has nothing to do with trade, but the curbing and destruction of the democratic decision making powers of societies. In other words, free trade is free corporate dictatorship, very similar to the old Soviet Politbureau system, free to rule, steal and even murder under the guise of Marxism in the case of the Soviets and neoclassical market economics in the case of capitalism that by now has become the biggest crime wave in human history, just another sugar coated "cultural revolution" .
Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.

>> In other words, free trade is free corporate dictatorship, very similar to the old Soviet Politbureau system, free to rule, steal and even murder under the guise of Marxism in the case of the Soviets and neoclassical market economics in the case of capitalism that by now has become the biggest crime wave in human history, just another sugar coated "cultural revolution" .<<<

Ill bet it looks that way to someone living on Kraft Dinner, but the reality is that it's you thats failing, not capitalism.

A 55 billion US dollar trade surplus for Canada in 2003. A 65 billion US dollar trade surplus for Canada in 2004. 80+% of your trade, almost all of your non service GDP. The entire economic renewal of Canada has been dependent on close trade with the USA. Thank God for Canada that there are still some Canadians up there who are smart enough to ignore your ill-informed whining and your dreams of changing a system that you are too stupid to prosper in.

Canadian Chamber of Commerce? More like Canadian Chamber of Compradors!

My dear friend, I have seen the nazis and have been sentenced to death by them, saved by the US Army. I have seen the Soviets and have been sentenced to the gulags by them, saved by the Brits. A dedicated private enterpriser, albeit not a so called "free enterpriser", which is a propaganda scam, I have been a business owner in BC since 1957 and have prospered. Never had a Kraft dinner in my life, but have freezers full of the best organic beef from my own herd. What can you show for your experience ? Your words suggest information reliance on the National Post and Fox News.
The US economy is on the verge of collapse at any time and is held up by the daily purchase of up to $2.5 billion worth of bonds by communist China and Japan, plus the fact that oil payments are still tied to worthless US Dollars by the Bretton Woods Treaty. Bush attacked Iraq because Hussein switched over to Euros. Now, if OPEC switches to Euros, the US economy is toast and the US dollar becomes worthless. Tying ourselves to a dead horse may be the illusion of well being for the brainwashed, but luckily, there are still people around who can think. That trade surplus, the GDP, growth and productivity figures are fraudulent neoclassical garbage to mislead people. That so called surplus ends up in the pockets of multinationals and stolen out of Canada to colonize the world. The more the foreign investment the poorer we are. Neither do I hide behind a nom de plume,but have the guts to stand up for what I say. Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.

Lets face it; this is a right wing think tank committed to self intrests-their.

Lets face it; this is a right wing think tank committed to self interests-their.
sorry for the typo