Majority of U.S. firms say free trade with Canada helps their economy

petros

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Now Liberals like the FTA and NAFTA?

 

mentalfloss

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Suddenly you think that Liberals were opposed to trade all this time?

You need to upgrade your nurse.
 

Curious Cdn

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Suddenly you think that Liberals were opposed to trade all this time?

You need to upgrade your nurse.

They sure fought the idea when the initial Free Trade Agreement with the US was being negotiated. We were going to be the 51st state, by now.

It's interesting in that the predicted economic integrations between the two nations did happen, yet culturally and politically, both countries are steadily diverging from each other.
 

Bar Sinister

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They sure fought the idea when the initial Free Trade Agreement with the US was being negotiated. We were going to be the 51st state, by now.

It's interesting in that the predicted economic integrations between the two nations did happen, yet culturally and politically, both countries are steadily diverging from each other.

That 51st state comment is interesting because that is exactly what a number of American Congressmen and Senators thought as well. What they overlooked was the fact that a country that would elect Pierre Trudeau was not interested in joining one that would elect Ronald Reagan.
 

White_Unifier

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Largely because the GST replaced the Manufacturers Sales Tax which was somewhat of a book keeping nightmare.



SOC you have no hope of ever getting a job.



Socialists depend on a bloated bureaucracy for jobs.

Ah, now I get it. It's not about helping the poor. It's about profiting well-paid union workers.