Spreading NAFTA’S Love Across The Atlantic

What NAUWATCH needs to understand is that in spite repeated violations of NAFTA by the Bush Adminidtration, Canada still exports $US317 billion worth of goods and services to the US and has a $US68b trade surplus with its southern neighbor. While bashing the Americans is both easy and popular, the fact remains that exports to the US supports 2 million Canadian jobs. Things will hopefully get better when a new administration comes to power in January.

Canada need not fear expanded trade ties with Europe. Any student of international economics is well aware that Canada has a considerable comparative advantage in a number of sectors, and is poised to fare quite well with the proposed expanded trade ties.

So, that's a perfectly good reason to open a similarly unfair agreement with Europe, and let Germany, France, Great Britain etc have their kick at the cat?

There is a legitimate concern by some that a Canada-EU trade agreement will be based on the failed NAFTA model.

NAFTA has resulted in the disappearance of Canadian jobs! NAFTA is nothing more than an American corporate wish list. I`m tired of those who claim that we must continue to kiss Washington`s ass! They need us more than we need them! They need our resources! And there are many markets around the world to export to. Problem is, under NAFTA, we`ve lost most of our Canadian owned companies. Not to mention, NAFTA has been a disaster for working class Americans too! Only the continental billionaire and multi-millionaire fascists have benefitted from NAFTA. Not to mention, before NAFTA, the Canadian government (when it actually had a backbone) told American corporations that if you want to sell it here, you have to build it here. And even back then, we had no problems exporting to our beloved USA. No, NAFTA did not guarantee Canadians prosperity through access to the US market, as we were lied into believing (though I never believed it in the first place!) All NAFTA did was guarantee that Canadian companies could be scooped up at firesale prices, and Canadian oil and gas, and soon, water, taken from us for next to nothing, disregarding the needs of the Canadian populace! Those Canadians who 'negotiated' NAFTA and the FTA are all traitors to this country!

The following letter has been sent to the editors of the 100 Mile House Free Press, Quesnel Cariboo Observer, Prince George Free Press, and the Williams Lake Tribune.

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Oct,3, 2008.


Dear Editor,


As a dedicated private enterpriser, registered voter in BC since May 1956, independent business and property owner since Nov. 1957, a WW2 combat vet, work/life experience in four countries under every known ideology, a student of history for over 60 and of economics for the past 26 years, I've never been so scared of corrupt politics since the beginning of my 45 year record of fighting communist dictatorships, as I am now of a Harper majority government.


Mr. Harper and his seatwarmers are totally hooked on laissez faire, neoclassical market economics, that has now become the biggest crime wave in human history, with global corporate dictatorship destroying all public control and democracy, and the Earth's ecology, while killing tens of millions of people every year , most of them little children, through starvation and destitution.


The textbook definition of economics is ?The science for the management and distribution of scarce resources?. Maynard Keynes came close, but all other theories have become the tools for oppression, colonization, enslavement and mass murder, as this now ruling Friedmanite crime wave, serving the same predator class, whether they call themselves communists, nazis, or capitalists.


The presently ongoing neo-conservative plan is for a Soviet type, global collectivization under the rule of a few mega corporations, operating under hundreds of phony names, already controlling most of the world's markets like oil and food, making huge profits by price fixing and extortion from producers and consumers alike. The disgusting cattle prices breaking our ranchers right now have long been fixed in corporate head offices in the USA, with our governments closing their eyes.


Their control over resources and lives is sold to and forced on the gullible public by the fraudulent definition of economic efficiency as ?the biggest profits for the least monetary inputs?, ignoring the real definition of efficiency as ?The most work done with the least physical inputs?.


The sale of resources is the sale of capital, and not an income, service jobs are not assets but liabilities, yet they all are part fraudulent of the GDP, Growth and Productivity figures. The GDP accounts all transactions, regardless how damaging to the environment and people, the repair and the funeral costs of natural disasters and accident victims, as ?products? and ?growth?, without any debits for losses. When human labour is replaced by huge inputs of other forms of energy, the ?productivity? and ?efficiency? figures jump, regardless of the damage and wasteful depletion, while the public is urged to ?save energy?. .


The Harper government has long been engaged in secret negotiations with the other two NAFTA countries and the EU for the sale of Canadian sovereignty, the complete takeover of our economy, resources and the free importation of foreign labour to become ?more efficient? by replacing Canadians,. The excuse is that it will open a market for our ?products? to 800 million people. Another fraud, because with the deindustrialization of Canada by the FTA, NAFTA and the WTO, the only things we have left to sell are our resources and infrastructure, in short ?CANADA FOR SALE?, planned to come into effect at the Oct.17. summit in Montreal.


Ed Deak.

Sorry about the question marks. Must be some little man inside my machine, sabotaging it, as there were none in the whole letter.

Ed Deak.