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Protectionist trade policy

mercredi 15 février 2017 à 01:00

The troll wants the US to adopt protectionist trade policies but wants Canada to do the opposite. Canadians would rather have a trade war.

In opposing the troll, we must not defend neoliberalism and its "free trade" agenda.

I am against "free trade" because that tends, in practice, to give big business power over the nation. "Free trade" treaties are really business-supremacy treaties.

I am not particularly concerned with tariffs, and not against buying things from other countries. What we must do is make it difficult to move production from one country to another in order to cut wages for workers of all countries.