Other countries ditch free-trade orthodoxy to protect jobs. But not Canada.
Free trade is now orthodoxy in Canada. It used to be debated fiercely. It no longer is.
Stephen Harper’s Conservatives embrace free trade. So does Justin Trudeau, the new Liberal leader.
As part of their ongoing effort to pretend that they are not New Democrats, so do Tom Mulcair’s New Democrats.
Ironically, all of this has occurred at precisely the time when events demonstrate that free trade deals don’t work as advertised.
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