Revised NAFTA Shows Every Sign of Being Another Trump Scam

http://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/31/revised-nafta-shows-every-sign-of-being-another-trump-scam/
Date Written:  2018-08-31
Publisher:  Counterpunch
Year Published:  2018
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX23014

A look at the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement between the US and Mexico, a deal intended to force Canada, which has the strongest regulations, into signing on disadvantageous terms. Dolack explains why any new NAFTA will undoubtedly be a windfall for multi-national corporations at public expense.

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The Council of Canadians, long a NAFTA critic, fears Canada will show weakness. The group's honorary chair, Maude Barlow, wrote:

"Trump is threatening to push Canada out of the agreement, or making it a junior partner to the U.S. and Mexico. Our government must not give in to these tactics and hold the line on our public interest. When NAFTA was signed 30 years ago, we worried that Canada would be at the mercy of the U.S, and we were right. Now, Canada is going to have its auto workers and farmers pitted against each other."