Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
A lot of it is going towards making trade easier,
Mulroney said that about the FTA back in 1994. Then there was a national referendum held to kill the FTA, the majority voted against it, and Mulroney
pushed it through the night before he left office. Then what happened? US corporations started buying up and downsizing national Canadian business
and industry (what else would happen when a country signs an investor's rights agreement with an empire ten times its size?).
I believe it was something like 600,000 jobs lost in the first year alone, followed by deficits. Of course the conservative pawns are claiming more
integration with the US will mean more benefits for Canada- they happen to be well connected with the financial elite from both countries who are the
ones who benefit the most while regular Canadians have to bend to American corporate demands (NAFTA gave corporations the right to sue governments,
and the US uses this right more than others simply due to its size). Harper and Bilderberg Group, anyone?
Further neo-con agenda reading:
‘Now for the Hard Part’: A User's Guide to Renewing the Canadian-American
Partnership (Strategic Studies Working Group)
TheComte-
This is a scary part of the agreement IMO. Canada's food inspection is far more stringent than the USA's. With this agreement we will have to lower
our standards to the US levels. This means that, in these times of increasing food borne illness, there will only be more and more contaminated food
hitting our store shelves.
That's right. In Canada, our government is mostly in charge of food standards and safety protocols. In the US, that falls into the hands of private
interests, including corporations that fill the shoes of government observers of industry. What happens when corporations regulate corporations?
They work only in the interest of profit, a legally-binding direction. Now it looks like corporations will be able to fight the Canadian government
when it tries to continue regulating Canadian food, because neo-liberals have a hard on for keeping the state out of profitable affairs.
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on 28-11-2011 by Dimitri Dzengalshlevi because: (no reason given)
