NAFTA Highway, The Regina Route

Googling multimodal terminal site produces 575,000 results, so to summarize, it is a place where modes of transportation converge: trains, planes, and automobiles. Regina is perfect, they say, because it’s on the route from the west coast to Chicago and it’s a very cheap place to do business. And isn’t that what it’s all about for these folks — the bottom line? There’s a suggestion that little Regina, Saskatchewan could become even richer by becoming a value adding distribution hub for imported goods. In other words, the guts of a computer are manufactured with slave labour, which fits nicely into the global economy, the pieces are shipped here in containers, put into a case, and labeled Made In Canada to take advantage of NAFTA’s free trade provisions. http://politicsnpoetry.wordpress.com/2006/09/15/144/

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