Justin Trudeau: 'Globalisation isn't working for ordinary people'

[coldstream]

“What we’re facing right now – in terms of the rise of populism and divisive and fearful narratives around the world – it’s based around the fact that globalisation doesn’t seem to be working for the middle class, for ordinary people,” the Canadian prime minister said in an interview at his oak-panelled office in the country’s parliament. “And this is something that we identified years ago and built an entire platform and agenda for governing on.”

This guy is absolutely pathetic. The entire Liberal platform in about globalization, it stems from their roots in 18th Century British Liberalism.. deregulation, monetarism, free trade, privatization, regressive taxation. All to pander to their God, the Invisible Hand of the Free Market in economy and society.

His entire platform is aimed at disenfranchising working Canadians. It's about institutionalizing New Age cults in feminism, homosexuality, multiculturalism, environmental extremism.. and radical forms of relativism and individualism.. to destroy all semblance of a rational, cohesive culture, which is the basis of all vital economies..

He has no plan for reestablishing an integrated industrial national economy.. through TARIFFS, the only way to get out of the downward, spiral we are in. He doesn't even really understand that we have a problem. He's back peddling madly now to re-brand the Liberals as populist and nationalist, as he sees the maudlin One World politics he represents being systematically voted out of office throughout the West.. but he's been signing Free Trade Agreements with the EU, would have signed the TPP, selling out Canadian sovereignty.

The entire political culture in the West and Canada is in revolt, and his mandate is about to be pulled from under his feet. I would be surprised if internal bickering and his outrageous lack of leadership and vision doesn't simply reduce the government to torpor, or outright collapse before their mandate ends.. and as the Trump and Brexit effect move inexorably across our borders.

 

[tay]

The short answer to the headline is NO........


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-04-26/is-justin-trudeau-the-anti-trump

 

[B00Mer]

About time... Kill NAFTA

Buy Canadian! Hire Canadian!

 

[Danbones]

globalism isn't working for ordinary people, eh?

so the ordinary people are gonna have to go then...

 

[B00Mer]

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NAFTA doesn't work fo the Middle Class it's time to not have Free Trade but Fair Trade..

The only winners in NAFTA were the Multinational Corporation that could move their company around for cheap labour.

Kill NAFTA!!!

 

[MHz]

It never was meant to. The elite never make plans that includes everybody. To them that means 3% of the population at the very most, the rest of us have as much value as a worn out sock. Somebody from the 97% should mention that to them some days in the hopes of stopping the wholesale slaughter.

 

[taxslave]

That 3% includes most of our politicians.

 

[captain morgan]

NAFTA doesn't work fo the Middle Class it's time to not have Free Trade but Fair Trade..

Define, exactly, what is fair trade

 

[taxslave]

Define, exactly, what is fair trade

When we tax the shit out of imports so Canadian companies can compete.

 

[captain morgan]

Ought to be interesting reading a response to this.

Fair trade is such a subjective and wishy-washy expression

 

[Angstrom]

Fair trade should be based on Labor cost

Justin Trudeau: 'Globalisation isn't working for ordinary people'

Ordinary people around the world have been failed by globalisation, Justin Trudeau has told the Guardian, as he sought to explain a turbulent year marked by the election of Donald Trump, the Brexit vote and the rise of anti-establishment, nation-first parties around the world.

“What we’re facing right now – in terms of the rise of populism and divisive and fearful narratives around the world – it’s based around the fact that globalisation doesn’t seem to be working for the middle class, for ordinary people,” the Canadian prime minister said in an interview at his oak-panelled office in the country’s parliament. “And this is something that we identified years ago and built an entire platform and agenda for governing on.”

Last year, at a time when Trump was being described as a long shot for president and the threat of Brexit seemed a distant possibility, Trudeau, 44, swept to a majority government on an ambitious platform that included addressing growing inequality and creating real change for the country’s middle class.

One year on, what has emerged is a government that seems to go against the political tide around the world; open to trade, immigration and diversity and led by a social media star whose views on feminism, Syrian refugees and LGBT rights have provoked delight among progressives.

But as he enters his second year in power, Trudeau – a former high school teacher and snowboarding instructor – is under pressure to show the world that his government has found an alternative means of tackling the concerns of those who feel they’ve been left behind.

He cited the signing of Ceta – the free trade deal between the EU and Canada – and a hotly contested decision to approve two pipelines as examples of this approach.

“We were able to sign free trade agreement with Europe at a time when people tend to be closing off,” he said. “We’re actually able to approve pipelines at a time when everyone wants protection of the environment. We’re being able to show that we get people’s fears and there are constructive ways of allaying them – and not just ways to lash out and give a big kick to the system.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-interview-globalisation-climate-change-trump

It was part of his election campaign. Bribery of the middle class with its own money.

I really can't see how constantly stimulating the economy to maintain a middle class can be sustainable.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Fair trade should be based on Labor cost



It was part of his election campaign. Bribery of the middle class with its own money.

I really can't see how constantly stimulating the economy to maintain a middle class can be sustainable.

They've stopped doing it in the United States to a certain extent and a frightened and diminished Middle Class that is watching their world wane, have just elected Donald Trump to save them.

He won't, of course but he will lighten the tax burdens on the very rich and leave it to the already weakened Middle Class to carry the extra burden.

It will be interesting to see if any semblance of Democracy survives the demise of the Middle Class but I doubt it.

 

[captain morgan]

Fair trade should be based on Labor cost

Yabut labour costs are different between nations let alone urban/rural or between provinces.

 

[Twin_Moose]

 

[tay]

Why can’t Canada manufacture its own post boxes?


The four-year contract is worth more than $150 million Canadian (800 million Danish kroner).

The awarding of a major federal Crown corporation contract to a European company is significant, in part because Canada Post comes close to being one of this country’s national symbols (somewhat like the RCMP).

It raises questions about why our national postal service did not look harder for a Canadian company to build the boxes, which are not exactly complex, high-tech products and are bulky for cross-Atlantic shipping.

It also raises questions about why Canadian manufacturing companies are so inefficient that they cannot put forward a competitive bid against a company in Denmark, where wages, pensions, taxes and social welfare benefits are generally more generous than in Canada.

In an era when politicians are critical of the way economic globalization is erasing domestic jobs, and trade protectionism is gaining serious re-consideration, this move by Canada Post may say a lot about the increasingly globalized vision Justin Trudeau has for Canada where business innovation can be weak and jobs are often shipped away.

Why can

 

[Danbones]

The age of Canada Post is over
Canada Post’s offhand conduct in the way it has trotted out its new delivery solutions and its plan for ending door-to-door service is a telltale sign of how out of touch it has become with its customer base — and how anachronistic its Crown-corporation swagger, quite apart from its operations, has become.
The age of Canada Post is over | The London Free Press

Giving a U.S. Company the Contract for Canada's Community Mailboxes Is Insult To Injury

Canada Post chief executive Deepak Chopra defended the controversial cuts to home delivery, saying the many seniors he consulted welcomed the idea because it would provide them with exercise."

It is comments like this that makes a person's blood boil, the amount of disrespect one must process to be perfectly fine with being officially quoted with such a statement by a major Canadian publication.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/bruce-moncur/canada-post-restructure_b_6012488.html


Mr. Chopra has more than 25 years of global experience in the financial services and postal industry.
https://www.canadapost.ca/web/en/pages/aboutus/details.page?article=deepakchopra

It's a globalist thing get it???
You know, the stuff trump hates?

"Chopra was appointed to these roles by the Conservative government of Stephen Harper on January 18, 2011, for a five-year term from February 1, 2011 to January 31, 2016.[2] This appointment was renewed by Harper's government in July 2015, just before the scheduled federal election in October 2015, for a five year term starting February 2016 at a salary of about $500,000.[3]

In 2013, Canada Post, led by Chopra, introduced the extremely unpopular[4][5][6][7][8] plan of eliminating door-to-door delivery of mail and converting to "community mail boxes."

This plan was opposed by all federal parties except the Conservatives during the Canadian Federal Election of 2015.[9] The plan was stopped by the Liberal Party after they won the election.

Following the Canadian Federal Election of 2015, Chopra was asked to resign and re-apply for his position by the newly elected government of Justin Trudeau. Chopra refused in a letter written by Sian Matthews, Chair of the Board of Directors for Canada Post.[10]

Chopra took over the post from Stewart Bacon, who returned from retirement as interim president and CEO in July 2010 when then-CEO Moya Greene left to take over Britain's national carrier, the Royal Mail.

Chopra is a certified general accountant and a member of the Certified General Accountants of Ontario. In 2009, he was named a Fellow of the Certified General Accountants of Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepak_Chopra_(Canada_Post)

The guy is self centered globalist who doesn't give a crap about the pm, canadians, or Canada.

 

[MHz]

OMG this cannot stand. Oh wait in the same 4 years we will have 'donated' $120B to the World Bank in the form of interest for using money they 'print' for Canada. That is when the printing presses have been idle as all money is now digital.
If nothing it else it show be don't mind being ****ed up the ass by the ones we are paying lots to to make sure that doesn't happen.
Good help is impossible to find for the last few hundred years.

 

[Hoof Hearted]

The short letter mail is dead. Canada Post is now a parcel company. They're delivering the on-line world. All of the Mailmen drive vehicles now on their routes.

 

[tay]

The short letter mail is dead. Canada Post is now a parcel company. They're delivering the on-line world. All of the Mailmen drive vehicles now on their routes.

What type of mail they deliver is not the point of my post regarding Trudeau's faux compassionate claim that 'Globalisation isn't working for ordinary people' .

The fact that Canadians manufacturers are left out of creating jobs to a foreign company is the subject....

 

[Danbones]

...and who decided that decision...re canada post?
It wasn't globalist Trudeau, it was a GLOBALIST HARPER PLACEMENT

...and even though trudie opposed this cheepak dood, and even though Canadians don't like it,
globalism is what we get anyway.