Last week the Harper Government announced that the highly anticipated Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the European Union had been finalized. The ratification process could take up to two years due to the complexities involved in...
Trade
It’s Time for Internal Canadian Free Trade
Since taking office in 2006, the Harper government has negotiated over 40 separate international trade agreements and has championed the idea of free trade around the world as a means of economic and political liberalization and progress. While Canada’s approach...
Saskatchewan Should Take A Leading Role In Trade
With an abundance of natural resources, and a bustling agriculture industry, trade is vital to the Saskatchewan economy. The province exports more products per capita than any other province, and recently overtook British Columbia to become the fourth largest...
Canada Should Continue Creating its Own Trade Agreements
Many economists agree that free trade promotes economic growth, reduces poverty and benefits all countries that participate. The World Trade Organization is supposed to facilitate global trade by helping to reduce and eventually eliminate barriers like tariffs and...
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The Swedish Response to Covid-19 versus Canada
In a recent New York Times article, David Wallace Wells asked, “How did No-Mandate Sweden End up with such an average pandemic”. Let’s be clear. This admission from the New York Times, who tried to destroy the response to Covid-19, starting in April 2020 and...
Draconian, Anti-Science Measures During the Pandemic Has Led to Loss of Trust in Our Institutions
Candida Auris is a fungus that, unlike most fungi, can survive in a human body. It is capable of spreading within the body, resulting in an agonizing death. For unknown reasons the fungus is spreading at a rather alarming rate. So far, cases have been confined to long...
WTO COOL Ruling Favours Canada
WTO Rules that US COOL requirements violate WTO Agreement
This just in: fair trade coffee impoverishes farmers
For those unaware, this past Saturday was World Fair Trade Day. Now, it needs to be mentioned that no one criticizes the intentions of those who are involved in promoting 'fair trade' coffee. Helping some of the poorest farmers in the world is admirable. However,...
Prohibition-era liquor law takes hit
Terry David Mulligan, known by those over 30 as the famous VJ from Much Music, has become a hero for the freedom to trade in wine. Now a wine journalist, Mulligan has taken to challenging Canada's archaic wine laws. See the story here. In Canada today, it is illegal...
Major food producer considers Alberta for water exchange market
The head of Nestle - the world's largest food group - has suggested his company is open to exchange-based water trade as a means of dealing with competition over scarce water resources in Alberta. Here is the reference. Alberta currently has a "first-in-time,...
National Priority
The federal government should establish pre-defined utility corridors to the west coast
The War Against Alberta’s Oil
From the Capital Research Centre comes “American Greens Vs. Canadian Oil Producers,” another insightful piece skilfully documenting how American environmentalists are levelling an all out war against Alberta’s Oil Sands. The campaign is thick on defamation, innuendo, half-truth and outright lies.
The network includes household names such as Earthworks, Environmental Defence, Friends of Earth, Greenpeace, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC), Rainforest Action, and the Sierra Club.
These are the front actors pretending to be a grassroots movements, coming to tell Canadians what to do and how to handle our resources. The faux-grassroots army is somewhat secretly bankrolled by a series of American billionaire foundations among which are Sea Change Foundation, Oak Foundation, The New York Community Trust, and Tides Foundation. It’s hard to know who is whose pawn in this complex cabal.
Sea Change is not able to accept unsolicited proposals
They systematically funnel millions into a concerted Anti Alberta Oil campaign. Considering that the leading economies of our country are the oil-leading economies of Alberta and Saskatchewan, it is a foreign war against the engines of Canada’s economy.
Flight and Exile from Statism
We know that supply management does little for the poor consumer. But this story puts the lie to the idea that supply management does wonders for producers in the dairy industry. Those who value autonomy and responsibility in the industry seem to know it. Canadian dairy, such as it is today, has no future.
The Unpleasant Whiff of Canada-U.S. Trade Rules
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama pledged earlier this month to seek convergence on a vast array of trade-inhibiting regulations as they pursue a broader North American security perimeter deal.
Free Trade with Europe is Good for Canada: Ordinary Canadians need to Support it
A free trade agreement with the European Union will enhance Canada’s economy, open up new markets reducing our dependency on the United States, and open doors for a variety of badly-needed reforms in Canada.