Harper gave his speech that dissed Brexiters and Trumpers for going against the flow of globalization and deciding that they want their countries citizens to be first in any prosperity through protectionist trade policies as opposed to the myriad of 'Free Trades' they now operate under.
Of course he's working for a private corporation so who knows what their motivations are but both Harper and Trudeau have teamed up to try and bring us another round of job gouging Free Trade initiatives with India.
Back in 2012 Harper said this;
After a slow-moving summit with his Indian counterpart, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told a business conference today in New Delhi that trade ties between India and Canada are not developing fast enough.
Seeming frustrated by the modest achievements of his visit — which produced some incremental, sector-by-sector agreements but not the hoped-for Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement — Harper said the "untapped economic potential between us is massive and undeniable."
"There's starting to be greater protectionism going forward. It's not an avalanche yet. It's not something to panic about," Harper said.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/harper-warns-india-to-move-faster-on-developing-trade-1.1248267
And now we have this; the Liberals and Harper together in India pushing for the same thing;
Federal Liberal Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi, fresh off a trade promotion trip to India, says a free-trade agreement with India “is high priority for our government.”
But for all the talk, it’s clear that any free trade with India remains a long way off.
Talks began with fanfare under the Conservative government led by Stephen Harper but quickly slowed as officials haggled over investor protections and thorny issues such as access for Indian temporary workers, skilled workers and visitors to Canada.
That turtle pace continued despite Justin Trudeau’s mandate letter to his former international trade minister Chrystia Freeland setting out “the development of a targeted strategy to promote trade and investment with emerging markets, with particular attention to China and India,” as a goal for his government.
In an interview with the Star, Sohi said he believes a Canada-India free trade deal is possible in this mandate.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/01/19/free-trade-agreement-with-india-a-high-priority-for-canada.html
And report from of all places, Forbes on child labour in India........
Jyothi Ramulla Naga is 4 feet tall. From sunup to sundown she is hunched over in the fields of a cottonseed farm in southern India, earning 20 cents an hour. Farmers in the Uyyalawada region process high-tech cottonseeds genetically engineered to contain a natural pesticide, on behalf of U.S. agriculture giant Monsanto . To get the seeds to breed true the farmers have to cross-pollinate the plants, a laborious task that keeps a peak of a dozen workers busy for several months on just one acre. And to make a profit the farmers have to use cheap labor. That means using kids like Jyothi, who says she’s 15 but looks no older than 12. (Monsanto points to papers indicating she is 15.) To harvest the bolls three months later, the farmers use cheap labor again, not the machinery that is used to pick cotton in the U.S.
https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/0225/072.html
Of course he's working for a private corporation so who knows what their motivations are but both Harper and Trudeau have teamed up to try and bring us another round of job gouging Free Trade initiatives with India.
Back in 2012 Harper said this;
After a slow-moving summit with his Indian counterpart, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told a business conference today in New Delhi that trade ties between India and Canada are not developing fast enough.
Seeming frustrated by the modest achievements of his visit — which produced some incremental, sector-by-sector agreements but not the hoped-for Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement — Harper said the "untapped economic potential between us is massive and undeniable."
"There's starting to be greater protectionism going forward. It's not an avalanche yet. It's not something to panic about," Harper said.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/harper-warns-india-to-move-faster-on-developing-trade-1.1248267
And now we have this; the Liberals and Harper together in India pushing for the same thing;
Federal Liberal Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi, fresh off a trade promotion trip to India, says a free-trade agreement with India “is high priority for our government.”
But for all the talk, it’s clear that any free trade with India remains a long way off.
Talks began with fanfare under the Conservative government led by Stephen Harper but quickly slowed as officials haggled over investor protections and thorny issues such as access for Indian temporary workers, skilled workers and visitors to Canada.
That turtle pace continued despite Justin Trudeau’s mandate letter to his former international trade minister Chrystia Freeland setting out “the development of a targeted strategy to promote trade and investment with emerging markets, with particular attention to China and India,” as a goal for his government.
In an interview with the Star, Sohi said he believes a Canada-India free trade deal is possible in this mandate.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/01/19/free-trade-agreement-with-india-a-high-priority-for-canada.html
And report from of all places, Forbes on child labour in India........
Jyothi Ramulla Naga is 4 feet tall. From sunup to sundown she is hunched over in the fields of a cottonseed farm in southern India, earning 20 cents an hour. Farmers in the Uyyalawada region process high-tech cottonseeds genetically engineered to contain a natural pesticide, on behalf of U.S. agriculture giant Monsanto . To get the seeds to breed true the farmers have to cross-pollinate the plants, a laborious task that keeps a peak of a dozen workers busy for several months on just one acre. And to make a profit the farmers have to use cheap labor. That means using kids like Jyothi, who says she’s 15 but looks no older than 12. (Monsanto points to papers indicating she is 15.) To harvest the bolls three months later, the farmers use cheap labor again, not the machinery that is used to pick cotton in the U.S.
https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/0225/072.html