The New NAFTA
August 15, 2017
Worse than the old one. Canada wants a “more progressive” NAFTA that includes new chapters on gender rights and climate change. NAFTA, old or new, is not about free trade. A free-trade agreement would take a page, not 1,000 pages. NAFTA is about government-managed trade. Managed trade is not free trade.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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