Lawrence Herman

Barack Obama Dept: Does all of this seem eerily familiar? Why, yes. Good old-fashioned Canadian nationalism has come back to haunt us. Back in the 1980s, the people who fought the trade deal with the U.S. said the very same things about the Americans. It didn t turn out that way, of course. Free trade made us prosperous and rich, according to Globe and Mail. The disappointing truth about this investment deal is that it s an incremental step ahead. It won t allow the Chinese to rampage through the land. Canada already has 24 similar agreements with other countries. According to trade lawyer Lawrence Herman, there are 2,500 such agreements in force around the world, and many of them are signed by China and luke, I am your employer There s a load of irony in all this. The people who used to be anti-American and pro-Chinese seem to have changed sides. But now that Barack Obama is in office for the moment, at any rate , anti-Americanism isn t quite as fashionable as it used to be. The Chinese are now the bad guys. And the more they act like capitalists, the more they re demonized for being Communists. We re not dealing on an even playing field with Communist China, the NDP s Thomas Mulcair warns. Why in heaven s name would we give up our own resources that way to another country? The one thing that never goes out of fashion in this country is moral superiority. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.