We can't even have multilateral free trade agreements within Unilateral Canada good luck with the rest of the world
I'd like to see one province set the example and unilaterally drop all intentional trade barriers against other provinces.
We can't even have multilateral free trade agreements within Unilateral Canada good luck with the rest of the world
I'd like to see one province set the example and unilaterally drop all intentional trade barriers against other provinces.
that isn't going to happen.I'd like to see one province set the example and unilaterally drop all intentional trade barriers against other provinces.
Under NAFTA Canadian agriculture has a $400 million deficit with America.
How could it get any worse?
that isn't going to happen.
every province must protect its economy.
You don't seem to really have any background in economics at all.
A-frigging-mazing!
So many here foolishly boasting that we don't need NAFTA.
Such ill informed silliness doesnt deserve comment.
What a foolish comment. Obviously you need to read some history books with an emphasis on job creation,standard of living etc..We didn't have NAFTA for 127 of our 151 years as a confederation and lo and behold, we're here!
No deal is better than a bad one.
We didn't have NAFTA for 127 of our 151 years as a confederation and lo and behold, we're here!
No deal is better than a bad one.
For months now, the prospect of the United States pulling out of NAFTA has seemed like a bad dream.more
President Donald Trump made the menace much more real this week, warning Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the White House that the deal may be "terminated" if the U.S. doesn't get what it wants.
This is the nightmare scenario long feared by many Canadians after almost three decades of free trade with our southern neighbour.
Or is it?
Obviously, the end of the North American free-trade agreement – the foundation of Canada's relationship with the U.S. and Mexico – is not this country's preferred option. There would be economic pain and dislocation, at least initially. Untold numbers of jobs would be lost and investments delayed or cancelled if the world no longer perceived Canada as a gateway to the vast U.S. market. Complex supply chains, particularly in the auto sector, would be disrupted.
But it wouldn't have to be an economic catastrophe. If Canada plays its cards right, the death of NAFTA could become a catalyst for making the Canadian economy stronger, more outward-looking and less tethered to an increasingly unreliable partner.
"If NAFTA were to cease, I don't think it would be a complete disaster. And in some respects, it actually has a silver lining," argues David Emerson, a former lumber executive and federal minister of both foreign affairs and trade.
The troubled NAFTA talks are a "wake-up call" for Canada, says Mr. Emerson, who insists he's speaking for himself and not the numerous corporate boards and advisory groups he sits on. Among other things, he says, Canada should use this time to forge closer ties with China, Japan and other Asian nations, ease the regulatory burden at home and invest heavily in the kind of infrastructure that will make trade easier – all to hedge against the risk of an increasingly protectionist and inward-looking U.S.
"If it isn't Trump, it will be somebody else," Mr. Emerson warns. "There is a strong protectionist, self-serving sentiment that runs deep through the American legislative and regulatory process. Ultimately, we're going to have to diversify our economic linkages in ways that ensure our whole economy is not dangerously vulnerable to those protectionist, Make America Great Again actions."
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You must be too young to remember but, not only did most of us have jobs pre-NAFTA, everyone's standard of living was relatively higher, then. Our buying power has steadily eroded over the last thirty plus years. Most Middle Class Canadians were far better off in the 1970s than we are today. You're either having memory problems or you're too young to know how much globalization has chipped away at the North American Middle Class.What a foolish comment. Obviously you need to read some history books with an emphasis on job creation,standard of living etc..
BTW for most of Canadas history we didnt have antibiotics, year round highways, electricity and yes in a pinch we could do without many things.
Only a fool would want to.
So wrong. As I noted earlier, I am not prepared to discuss with someone who obviously has no idea what he is talking about.You must be too young to remember but, not only did most of us have jobs pre-NAFTA, everyone's standard of living was relatively higher, then. Our buying power has steadily eroded over the last thirty plus years. Most Middle Class Canadians were far better off in the 1970s than we are today. You're either having memory problems or you're too young to know how much globalization has chipped away at the North American Middle Class.
Yes it was great living in a house with seven others . One bathroom , only a tub , no shower . Three bedrooms two to a room , ops sister needed her own room . Three boys in one room .life was so much simpler then .You must be too young to remember but, not only did most of us have jobs pre-NAFTA, everyone's standard of living was relatively higher, then. Our buying power has steadily eroded over the last thirty plus years. Most Middle Class Canadians were far better off in the 1970s than we are today. You're either having memory problems or you're too young to know how much globalization has chipped away at the North American Middle Class.
No kidding. It's time for Canada to cultivate its own oranges and then encourage our orange farmers to compete with the world.
Yes it was great living in a house with seven others . One bathroom , only a tub , no shower . Three bedrooms two to a room , ops sister needed her own room . Three boys in one room .life was so much simpler then .