It should have been named CAMUS, after the French philosopher, author and journalist Albert Camus who contributed to the philosophy known as absurdism
Albert Camus: Nov 7th, 2013 to Jan 4th, 1960
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I'm
confused.
We kept
Chapter 19 … we kept the status quo on cars and parts … and there has been no
change on access to Canadian culture.
On the
other hand, we lost ground on dairy giving the Americans 3.5% of our market
(despite the fact the US subsidizes their industry to the tune of BILLIONS
every year) … our Steel, Aluminum and forest industries are STILL at the mercy
of the US government and protectionist states … and who knows what else.
What
exactly did Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, along with Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia
Freeland, get for us as gains, with the new NAFTA?
To me
at, it sounds more like it was a fire sale, despite what our government has to
say:
After more than a year of
negotiating a new North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA), Canada,
the U.S. and Mexico have finally inked a trade deal.
Foreign Affairs Minister
Chrystia Freeland and United States Trade Representative
Robert Lighthizer released
a joint statement Sunday night announcing the new deal,
which will be called the
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
“Today, Canada and the United States
reached an agreement, alongside Mexico, on
a new, modernized trade agreement for
the 21st Century: the United States-Mexico-
Canada Agreement (USMCA),” the statement
read.
U.S. President Donald Trump is to sign the
$1.2-trillion trade agreement at the end
of November and will then submit it to
Congress, an official said.
FULL STORY: https://globalnews.ca/news/4500068/nafta-2018-agreement-finalized/
FULL STORY: https://globalnews.ca/news/4500068/nafta-2018-agreement-finalized/
And so,
perhaps, that is why we have this comment from John Feldsted this morning:
Ultimately, this looks
like a lot of political back-slapping over very little. The aluminum and steel
tariffs remain in place. We will still suffer American protectionist tariffs
countering their view of ‘anti-dumping’.
There is no good reason
to rename the trade agreement, but if it is renamed should have been the
Canada-Mexico-United States agreement (CAMUS) named after the French
philosopher, author and journalist Albert Camus who contributed to the
philosophy known as absurdism.
Perhaps that's why John concluded his brief comments with this, "And that folks, neatly
sums up the past year of reports on negotiations we have suffered."
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