Deal Ends Myth Of Free Trade

Mr. Harper touted the "resolution" of the Softwood Lumber Dispute as "a good deal". Does this mean he no longer supports free trade, considering that this "good deal" is (very much) regulated trade?

Where the heck are the oppostion parties in all this.....?

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RickW

First of all, these are not "trade agreements", but international treaties, set up to restrict the democratic decision making powers of various societies. Their supporters call them "trade agreements" to put them into a different legal category to mislead their own peoples. Basically the nazi and communist concepts of "freedom" under the thumbs of a ruling sector and a sweetened version of Mao's Cultural Revolution.

During the 1988 fight against the FTA, David Orchard had a series of public debates with Toronto U political economics professor John Crispo. In one of the debates Crispo said: "It makes no difference who owns the country, as long capital is permitted to move freely" I may still have it on tape. Crispo became Professor Emeritus and Mulroney rewarded him with a CBC directorship at the time.

This shows what these fraudulent treaties and their criminal instigators and supporters are all about.

In any case, all this has been predicted by a lot of people 18-20 years ago and I still have a filing drawer full of materials from those years, proving how this fraud was imposed on us and now on the whole world under the WTO.

Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.

It will be interesting to see how "the right," whose support for the Conservatives were based on Stephen Harper advocacy of free markets, will try to justify the compromise of those principles in order to get the Softwood Lumber Agreement with the US.

This agreement is an extremely intricate plan for market control on behalf of specific special interests. It is hard to see how anyone who honestly believes in "principled" government could support such a transgression of those principles that hold dear for mere political expediency. Not only does this violate free market principles but only time will tell whether it will create stablility for the large Canadian corporate interests it was meant to benefit because there is nothing inherent in the agreement to secure even intermediate term security.

Ironically if capital is allowed to move freely, then the U.S. will just buy Canada up as it has more capital. Freedom of capital is our enemy as Canada has no capital shortage anymore.

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Multiculturalism is neither left nor right, but rather a sickening indication of what happens when 'representative government' fails the majority.

I remember in the '80s hearing all those warnings and not believing them; they just seemed too incredible plus I had all the counter stories being published in the media. At that time I didn't know that the media had been bought.<br />
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What amazes me is that there is no "I told you so"s or mass protests now. Every day I read about American companies in Detroit threatening to tear up their union contracts and asking courts to support them in this. They want to cut unionized wages in half.<br />
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No protests.<br />
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The truth about the Arrow cancellation is now out. Google "arrow cancellation" and this incredible headline comes up:<br />
Despite the huge impact the Avro Arrow's cancellation will have on Canadian industry and defence, opposition leaders won't criticize the decision.<br />
from the archives of the CBC<br />
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The truth about the Arrow cancellation can be found here: <a href="http://www.avroarrow.org/Cancellation.htm">http://www.avroarrow.org/Cancellation.htm</a><br />
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Change the names and the dates and it is amazing how history repeats itself!<br />

The Arrow was an extremely expensive military plane with limited usefulness in peace time. Those who wanted to continue in this directions were eager for the development of a Canadian industrial defence industry during the "Cold War."

I often wonder if the Arrow project has gone forward at such a huge expense to taxpayers, if people would have been so gaga over the project. There has been a great deal of emotional baggage attached to the Arrow especially by those who stood to benefit financially. At the time it seemed to be a huge waste of money when there were so many needs such as a national infrastructure program that would have benefited most Canadians, not just a select few in the defence industry. I believe our government made the correct choice.