Canada-EU trade proposal rivals scope of NAFTA
Posted by Jeff on September 18th, 2008
“The proposed pact would far exceed the scope of older agreements such as NAFTA by encompassing not only unrestricted trade in goods, services and investment and the removal of tariffs, but also the free movement of skilled people and an open market in government services and procurement – which would require that Canadian governments allow European companies to bid as equals on government contracts for both goods and services and end the favouring of local or national providers of public-sector services.”
Nice. We’ll be a European colony once again.
September 19th, 2008 at 9:38 am
In an interview on CBC last night, Roy McLaren (the chair of the roundtable) actually said that the public didn’t need to be consulted, and that they shouldn’t be concerned. Yikes. They’re really trying to slip this one under our noses.