Aug 29, 2018
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.
trade policy
Jun 19, 2018
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland misses the point about American power
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.
Jun 12, 2018
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.
Jun 12, 2018
How to handle U.S. threats to Canadian trade
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.
Mar 15, 2018
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!
Apr 25, 2017
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.
Feb 23, 2017
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.
Jan 24, 2017
Trumponomics unsettles Trudeau with threats to Canada-U.S. trade
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.
Jan 12, 2017
Trump's proven that free trade deals can be rewritten. So let's write better ones.
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.
Nov 1, 2016
Denying globalization's downside won't stop right-wing populism
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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