CETA: Harper set to deliver another economic blow to Canadian families | rabble.ca

17.9.12

CETA: Harper set to deliver another economic blow to Canadian families | rabble.ca: Lately we have been reading and hearing a lot of noise about a particular secret trade negotiation, entitled CETA, the Canada Europe Trade Agreement. Negotiated by the Harper Regime, the public is not allowed to know the details of these discussions only that they are preceding and soon there will be a binding agreement signed, an agreement which will have been arrived at without the input of the public, without the input of labour, without the input of municipal governments, or even any meaningful provincial contribution, yet binding on all. So who did have input? Bay Street.
That’s right, Bay Street the very same greed driven, deregulated, corporate welfare clowns that helped bring us the 2009 near collapse of the world’s economy, followed by the biggest bailout of privatized industry in Canada’s history, the $40 billion bailout of our nation’s banks. This same cabal of CEOs last year called on Finance Minister Flaherty, to introduce measures to reduce the pay of Canadian workers, enact U.S.-style right-to-work legislation, reduce the size and services that government provides, move forward with two tier healthcare, and bring in more foreign workers.