Canadians favour more free trade

[parsley]

wilagro,

Would you advocate Canada making a FTA with Cuba, or Rawanda, or perhaps Nigeria?

Would that be more in line with your preferences?

Parsley

[grassfarmer]

I actually moved here to get away from a country being run by socialists. Canada is far from a socialist country. Perhaps you wise guys need to travel a little to see what the world is really like. "Rawanda" indeed Parsley, and Frisco I think if you were to plunder your resource facility (read google) you would find that it is north Korea that is the communist state. Such worldy knowledge.

[Fransisco]

Ouch, you got me on that one. I meant North Korea not south.

Which Country did you move from grassfarmer?

[parsley]

I was being facetious, grassfarmer.

Parsley

[Willowcreek]

[Milton Friedman,former economic advisor to Presidents Nixon and Reagan, has argued that the North American Free Trade Agreement is actually not a "free trade" agreement, but rather is government managed trade. The essence of this criticism is that such trade agreements don't promote free trade, they inhibit it by implementing another level of bureaucracy on top of national governments. This can not only have a detrimental effect on trade, it results in an erosion of sovereignty for all nations involved and causes citizens and governments to be bound by decisions made by an unelected international body.]

Opposition in the States is rapidly growing to all "free trade" agreements and the last poll I saw showed opponents and proponents evenly split around 40%- with 20% having no opinion yet...

Something many do not know is that while NAFTA is looked at as a treaty under international law-- under United States law it is classed as a congressional-executive agreement rather than a treaty, since President Clinton was unable to get the two thirds majority of the Senate to vote for it, which is needed under the US Constitution to ratify a treaty...What this tentatively means is that the US could back out of it anytime they wished if that becomes the majority feeling of the Congress and next President (which some candidates are now campaigning on that platform) ...