Every time I read something about the proposed international trade deal between Canada and EU, I become more frightened.
What is the object of this deal? Destruction of Canada? Is this what Prime Minister Harper is all about? Has he been put in place to destroy Canada?
I don't know how anyone could even THINK of getting into this deal.
Below is information provided by Ms Elizabeth May, MP.
"We are strongly opposed to (the proposed CETA (EU) trade deal) or any trade deal with Europe that would weaken our health care system or any other aspect of Canadian sovereignty. The CETA agreement aims to eliminate the abilty of local and provincial governments to award contracts to Canadian companies - a preferential practice that creates domestic jobs and encourages local economic growth. Allowing European companies to bid on government contracts will negatively impact Canadian communities and employment. Additionally, the agreement contains an investor state dispute mechanism, which would provide foreign corporations with new legal avenues to challenge, in particular, environmental regulations, and claim monetary damages from the Government of Canada. Municipalities or provinces wishing to institute environmental regulations on industries, such as the tar sands, could be challenged by this mechanism."
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Please note: I am not affiliated with any political party. I will publish information from any party, if that information is helpful to the interests of ordinary Canadians.
"Ordinary Canadians" make up about 98.5% of the population of Canada. The other 1.5% of the population makes all the decisions, such as getting into insane trade deals which work against the interests of all Canadians.
I say "all Canadians" above for the following reason. Consider wealthy people with substantial indpendent income from investments and inheritances, living in beautiful residential areas. How does it help these people if the economy is driven down and down, and more and more industries and jobs are destroyed? So even wealthy people should be against these insane trade deals that Prime Minister Harper constantly pursues.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Saturday, November 19, 2011
A fair proposal
We are in a free-fall situation in terms of employment and the economy.
According to recent news reports, Heroux Devtek is completing a Mexican manufacturing facility. And, Bombardier has announced a new $200 million manufacturing facility in Morocco.
Bombardier Aerospace Pres. Guy Hachey used doublespeak when he said "our North American workforce has nothing to fear from the latest move".
A financial analyst was a bit more forthright when he said "(Bombardier) are not going to move aircraft assembly to Morocco. That's not happening anytime soon, and it's not happening in Mexico anytime soon".
"Anytime soon" is supposed to be encouraging to Canadian workers?
Heroux Devtek is setting up in Queretaro, Mexico, to manufacture aerostructures and landing gear systems. Queretaro has developed "an aerospace cluster of more than 50 companies, including Bombardier and General Electric". In Queretaro also the government has created "National Aerospace University, the first Mexican R & D centre in the aerospace sector".
What is the Canadian government doing about the kinds of things that are happening as described above?
Nothing!
Prime Minister Harper is more concerned with destroying the long gun registsry, with the same viciousness applied by his Conservative predecessor Diefenbaker to the Avro Arrow aerospace program. Harper also loves to strut on the world stage. He is working on trade deals with EU and China to bring even more devastation to the Canadian jobs picture.
We need wartime-type emergency measures to begin to save the Canadian economy and Canadian jobs.
Here is a fair proposal:
All stores, such as Wal-Mart, Home Depot, wholesale plumbing stores, etc., to be REQUIRED to carry and display Canadian-made goods alongside China goods.
Once this measure is put in place, with a timeline of one year, Canadian manufacturers will come forward with proposals for hundreds and later thousands of consumer, commercial, and industrial items.
Start with low-tech consumer items and as capabilities increase go on to more complex items.
If we need to abrogate and defy World Trade Organization rules and procedures, so be it. World trade and globalization are destroying Canada. Our manufactured goods trade deficit in 2010 was $80 billion, nearly triple the value in 2006 when Harper became Prime Minister.
How bad do things have to get before all Canadians are in the streets, not only the Occupy people?
According to recent news reports, Heroux Devtek is completing a Mexican manufacturing facility. And, Bombardier has announced a new $200 million manufacturing facility in Morocco.
Bombardier Aerospace Pres. Guy Hachey used doublespeak when he said "our North American workforce has nothing to fear from the latest move".
A financial analyst was a bit more forthright when he said "(Bombardier) are not going to move aircraft assembly to Morocco. That's not happening anytime soon, and it's not happening in Mexico anytime soon".
"Anytime soon" is supposed to be encouraging to Canadian workers?
Heroux Devtek is setting up in Queretaro, Mexico, to manufacture aerostructures and landing gear systems. Queretaro has developed "an aerospace cluster of more than 50 companies, including Bombardier and General Electric". In Queretaro also the government has created "National Aerospace University, the first Mexican R & D centre in the aerospace sector".
What is the Canadian government doing about the kinds of things that are happening as described above?
Nothing!
Prime Minister Harper is more concerned with destroying the long gun registsry, with the same viciousness applied by his Conservative predecessor Diefenbaker to the Avro Arrow aerospace program. Harper also loves to strut on the world stage. He is working on trade deals with EU and China to bring even more devastation to the Canadian jobs picture.
We need wartime-type emergency measures to begin to save the Canadian economy and Canadian jobs.
Here is a fair proposal:
All stores, such as Wal-Mart, Home Depot, wholesale plumbing stores, etc., to be REQUIRED to carry and display Canadian-made goods alongside China goods.
Once this measure is put in place, with a timeline of one year, Canadian manufacturers will come forward with proposals for hundreds and later thousands of consumer, commercial, and industrial items.
Start with low-tech consumer items and as capabilities increase go on to more complex items.
If we need to abrogate and defy World Trade Organization rules and procedures, so be it. World trade and globalization are destroying Canada. Our manufactured goods trade deficit in 2010 was $80 billion, nearly triple the value in 2006 when Harper became Prime Minister.
How bad do things have to get before all Canadians are in the streets, not only the Occupy people?
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Message to Parliament
A one-page letter was put into the mail in Toronto on November 8, 2011, for each Member of Parliament (House of Commons). That is a total of 307 letters.
Here is the text of the letter:
Here is the text of the letter:
November 7, 2011
(space for name of M.P.)
I recently found something very disturbing on the Industry Canada website. During the time that Mr. Harper has been Prime Minister, 2006 to the present, our trade deficit in manufactured goods with all foreign countries has nearly tripled.
According to Industry Canada, our trade deficit was $80 billion in 2010. This amount represents over $2300 for each Canadian man, woman, and child; real wealth going out of our pockets and out of our country, never to be seen again. The result is impoverishment of our country.
It defies logic to pay a net $80 billion to foreign countries to do our manufacturing for us, while our own Canadian workers stand in line at unemployment and welfare offices.
$80 billion represents nearly one million Canadians who could be working in manufacturing but are not. Imagine the beneficial effects of nearly an additional million Canadians working, rather than being unemployed.
I believe one reason for the great increase in our trade deficit is that trade deals signed in the past five years have not led to the anticipated increases in exports. But regardless of the cause(s), the near tripling of our trade deficit shows that Mr. Harper has taken Canada in exactly the wrong direction.
Now Mr. Harper is seeking new trade arrangements with EU and China. Whenever a country with relatively small population, Canada, enters into a trade arrangement with a large entity, EU or China, the country with smaller population suffers further job loss and further economic devastation.
EU has a population of nearly 500 million, 14 times the Canadian population. The EU economy is large and varied. EU is not going to buy manufactured goods from us. Instead, we will be Europe’s new colonial empire, to be exploited at will for EU’s own profit and benefit.
China has announced a multi-decade program of becoming completely self-sufficient in all manufactured goods up to and including airliners and railroad systems. They will be buying less from Canada and other western countries, not more.
It is absolutely vital that Mr. Harper stops searching for new trade deals, and especially that he cancels work on the EU deal and further China deals. Instead, we should be working to increase domestic manufacturing, and reduce imports.
Sincerely,
(space for signature)
According to Industry Canada, our trade deficit was $80 billion in 2010. This amount represents over $2300 for each Canadian man, woman, and child; real wealth going out of our pockets and out of our country, never to be seen again. The result is impoverishment of our country.
It defies logic to pay a net $80 billion to foreign countries to do our manufacturing for us, while our own Canadian workers stand in line at unemployment and welfare offices.
$80 billion represents nearly one million Canadians who could be working in manufacturing but are not. Imagine the beneficial effects of nearly an additional million Canadians working, rather than being unemployed.
I believe one reason for the great increase in our trade deficit is that trade deals signed in the past five years have not led to the anticipated increases in exports. But regardless of the cause(s), the near tripling of our trade deficit shows that Mr. Harper has taken Canada in exactly the wrong direction.
Now Mr. Harper is seeking new trade arrangements with EU and China. Whenever a country with relatively small population, Canada, enters into a trade arrangement with a large entity, EU or China, the country with smaller population suffers further job loss and further economic devastation.
EU has a population of nearly 500 million, 14 times the Canadian population. The EU economy is large and varied. EU is not going to buy manufactured goods from us. Instead, we will be Europe’s new colonial empire, to be exploited at will for EU’s own profit and benefit.
China has announced a multi-decade program of becoming completely self-sufficient in all manufactured goods up to and including airliners and railroad systems. They will be buying less from Canada and other western countries, not more.
It is absolutely vital that Mr. Harper stops searching for new trade deals, and especially that he cancels work on the EU deal and further China deals. Instead, we should be working to increase domestic manufacturing, and reduce imports.
Sincerely,
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