Ron Dyck on Nostr: "It’s a delicious if painful irony that it was the Left that warned about the ...

"It’s a delicious if painful irony that it was the Left that warned about the dangers of economic integration with the U.S. decades ago.

In 1987 a broad coalition of organizations formed to fight Prime Minister Brian Muroney’s free trade agreement with the U.S. Realizing that integration with the American economy would lead to lost jobs and less political autonomy, they invited a broad spectrum of groups into the Pro-Canada, later Action Canada Network. Unions, churches, the Assembly of First Nations, the newly formed Council of Canadians and the National Action Committee on the Status of Women united across serious differences to jointly oppose Free Trade. The free trade agreement with the U.S. was the beginning of implementing neo-liberalism in Canada. Ronald Regan and Margaret Thatcher had done the job in the U.S. and England, but Canada remained a more social democratic country. Brian Mulroney set out to change that."

They should have listened to us about free trade
https://canadians.org/analysis/they-should-have-listened-to-us-about-free-trade/