Millions of people yearning for a "Brexit" from destructive trade deals

http://canadians.org/blog/millions-people-yearning-brexit-destructive-trade-deals
Date Written:  2016-07-25
Publisher:  canadians.org
Year Published:  2016
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX20210

While the votes for Brexit, and the support for Trump, may not always choose the best political framing, politicians and elites would be arrogant to dismiss the widespread discontent with the status quo.

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U.S. President Barack Obama’s recent visit to Canada, against the backdrop of Brexit and the U.S. presidential campaign, had many opinion leaders trying to dismiss concerns about free trade.

Now, we’re told, people who are against free trade are isolationists who want to entrench themselves in the past, in a parochial nostalgia for the nation-state. The ideology of free trade opponents can only lead to an inward-looking mentality that fosters wars and destroys the economy.

So say the free traders who have been fostering wars and destroying the economy.