Our Grand Ayatollah

It took more than just 15 mins with d'Aquino to get Mulroney to buy into a free trade agreement... Anyway here's Pierre Pettigrew talking to d'Aquino & Robert Keyes (CEO of Canadian Council for International Business) at the Summit of the Americas in 2001:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig1Mpng4lro">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig1Mpng4lro</a><br />
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<p>---<br>"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

It's extremely distressing that free markets, or what little there is of them, are being trashed left and right (ahem) these days and blamed, essentially, for what's being called 'corporativism'. With a modicum of reflection, however, it's a simple matter to see that corporativism, or the state-sanctioned consolidation of power by elites, has nothing to do with free markets. Commentators such as the author, such as Naomi Klein, and legions of others, while they point out real injustice also do their part to push us further along this path by offering state regulation of the economy by socially minded mandarins as an antidote to state regulation of the economy by business czars. It's all still consolidation of power in the hands of a few.