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Zapatista children. Wikimedia photo by Julian Stallabrass.
If we lose the NAFTA fight, maybe we'll take on capitalism
Brent Patterson | The fight against climate change now names the need for system change. The same should be true for the fight against neoliberal trade policy.
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Prime Minister Trudeau and Minister Freeland speak with media regarding the American steel and aluminum tariffs in Ottawa. Photo: Adam Scotti/PMO
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland misses the point about American power
Duncan Cameron | What Chrystia Freeland left unstated about the standard for conduct of international relations is that the dominant feature of world politics has been the exercise of American hegemonic power.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with Donald Trump during the G7 in Taormina, Italy.Photo: Adam Scotti/PMO
How to handle U.S. threats to Canadian trade
Duncan Cameron | Canada is better off working with other countries to build a reasonable multilateral trading world rather than depending on the goodwill of a Donald Trump to re-negotiate NAFTA.
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Illustration of White House in flames. Image: The White House/Wikimedia Commons
The day we burned ole D.C. down -- or why I blame Stephen Harper for Canada's latest trade troubles!
David J. Climenhaga | You could probably credit Canada with putting White House the fire out. The destruction of Washington was a dud because of heavy rain, and our American cousins always blame bad weather on Canada.
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November 1988 federal election rally in Calgary. Front row: Mayor Ralph Klein, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, Premier Don Getty. Photo: Government of Alberta/flickr
Who saw Donald Trump coming? Not Simon Reisman, but maybe Ed Broadbent and John Turner
David J. Climenhaga | It's 2018 and we're starting to get a clearer impression of the true meaning of free trade with the United States. Thanks a load, Brian Mulroney!
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Photo: A modern U.S. dairy operation/Wikipedia
Make American dairy farms great again! Adopt supply management
David J. Climenhaga | While supply management gives consumers a quality product at a price that allows local farmers a living wage, the alternative is not cheaper milk, cheese, eggs and poultry.
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Canada had better plan for an unprecedented refugee crisis as U.S. lurches toward 'ethnic cleansing'
David J. Climenhaga | Canadians should be deeply concerned about stated plans by the Trump Regime in the United States to expel literally millions of U.S. residents from their country.
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Trumponomics unsettles Trudeau with threats to Canada-U.S. trade
Duncan Cameron | With the advent of Donald Trump, international trade has taken centre stage in U.S. politics. Trumponomics suggests that the rest of the world has been cheating the U.S. out of jobs and wealth.
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Trump's proven that free trade deals can be rewritten. So let's write better ones.
Jim Stanford | If Trump can rewrite international economic treaties on the strength of a few tweets, then we can do the same thing -- but only if we build a political movement with the same confidence and power.
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Denying globalization's downside won't stop right-wing populism
Jim Stanford | True believers may think that merely educating citizens about how trade deals really are good for everyone will save the day for globalization. But there's a much deeper problem.
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Trudeau popular in the polls, but concerns begin to emerge
Brent Patterson | The PM's popularity may be based on the perception that his government is truly progressive and implementing a different agenda than Harper. The evidence is suggesting that's not totally true.
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Canadians need more than celebrity from Justin Trudeau
Duncan Cameron | Justin Trudeau has shown he handles the communications side of being prime minister with aplomb. But making the government work for all Canadians requires more than showing up with a smile.