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News alert: The Free Trade Agreement of the Americas reborn? September 26, 2008 President Bush met with leaders and officials from 11 countries in the Western Hemisphere on Wednesday, September 24th in New York to launch the ‘Pathways to Prosperity in the Americas’ initiative. Canada is joined by the U.S., Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama and Peru in this initiative. All have free trade agreements with the U.S., or one pending before Congress. In a Washington Post article, Bush hails the initiative as, “a forum where leaders can work to ensure that the benefits of trade are broadly shared.” (more...) CD Howe Institute backs Canada-EU deal and deep integration through NAFTA renegotiation September 24, 2008 Alan Alexandroff, who recently co-wrote a CD Howe Institute paper on NAFTA titled 'Still Amigos', writes in today's Globe and Mail that, "As Canada readies for a massive free-trade negotiation - perhaps starting as early as Oct. 17 - many hope the talks between Canadian and European officials could eventually result in a wide-ranging agreement. Such an EU-Canada agreement could even exceed NAFTA's scope by guaranteeing the free movement of skilled labour, free exchange of services and competitive public procurement." (more...) NAFTA+ business plans hurting Mexican workers, says journalist June 2, 2008 An essay in the Fort Worth, Texas Star-Telegram this weekend by Mexican journalist Anne Vigna describes the impact NAFTA has had on workers in her country. While uglier than Canada’s free-trade history with the United States, the reality is similar in many ways. (more...) May 22, 2008 A Canada West Foundation poll, which was reported in some newspapers as indicating Canadian support for eliminating so-called inter-provincial trade barriers, reveals distaste in western Canada for the negative impacts of international free trade agreements. (more...) NAFTA’s legacy? Census data shows widening income gap despite promises of continental integration May 2, 2008 Last week, at the close of the fourth SPP summit in New Orleans, Prime Minister Harper issued a joint statement with Presidents Bush and Calderon that reaffirmed their commitment to the NAFTA trading model despite fresh criticism of free trade in all three countries. (more...) Nothing new from the Disaster Summit but dangerous SPP initiatives live on April 29, 2008 The media and business consensus following last week’s Security and Prosperity Partnership summit in New Orleans is that the trilateral meeting didn’t produce anything significant. While this is partly correct – no new initiatives were announced – the ones we’re stuck with are bad enough. And while we learned a few new things about the SPP’s progress since Montebello, very few of the details ended up in the news. (more...) Tour of New Orleans shows widespread government neglect April 21, 2008 Standing on old concrete foundations buried in overgrowth, it was hard to believe the expanses of green dotted with unused houses used to be a thriving community. But that was before Hurricane Katrina hit in the summer of 2005. Reconstruction in the Lower Ninth Ward has been slow to non-existent. (more...) Liberals must vote no to Harper’s immigration reforms April 9, 2008 The group No One Is Illegal has issued an action alert asking citizens to contact their MPs (particularly Liberal MPs) to urge them to vote no to a series of amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA). (more...)
March 20, 2008 “The federal Conservatives are moving to give the Immigration Minister more power to control the number and type of people allowed into the country – and the speed with which they are welcomed here,” wrote the Globe and Mail on March 15. (more...)
March 14, 2008 Common Frontiers has revised several fact sheets on ‘free trade’ to help cut through the spin and clutter around the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) – a ‘next generation’ trade deal involving Canada, Mexico and the United States. (more...)
March 12, 2008 As NAFTAgate was just starting to make front-page news in Canada last week, trade analyst Chris Sands was telling Embassy magazine to take U.S. renegotiation rhetoric seriously. (more...) March 3, 2008 Forget about Ian Brodie’s alleged phone call to the media regarding U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Barrack Obama’s stance on NAFTA. How’s this for Canadian meddling in the upcoming U.S. elections? (more...)
February 28, 2008 The following article is reprinted with permission from the Americas Program at the Center for International Policy (CIP). Laura Carlsen is director of the CIP’s Americas Policy Program). The Americas Mexico Blog can be found at www.americasmexico.blogspot.com. (more...)
January 28, 2008 Last Friday, four North American civil society networks -- Quixote Center (USA), Common Frontiers (Canada), Red Mexicana de Acción frente al Libre Comercio (Mexico), and Réseau québécois sur l’Intégration continentale (Quebec) -- released a statement called, "NAFTA must be renegotiated" at a press conference in Mexico City. (more...)
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