XPost: can.politics   
   From: trans@for.mer   
      
   On 9/18/2017 1:48 PM, TomP wrote:   
   > On 18/09/2017 2:26 PM, Optimus Prime wrote:   
   >> On 9/18/2017 1:22 PM, TomP wrote:   
   >>> If the Canadian government truly worked on behalf of the citizens that   
   >>> voted them in they would scrap NAFTA and pass Canadian content laws for   
   >>> products on the Canadian market.   
   >>   
   >> But they're NOT, as you know.   
   >>   
   >> Now posit WHO or WHAT they DO work for, please...   
   >   
   > They work for the corporations of course.   
      
   Which ones?   
      
   > What if Boeing was a Canadian company based out of Toronto? They would   
   > not be able to sue. That's what happened in Ontario when there was the   
   > first NDP government. If the government had set up a government run   
   > auto insurance company like the NDP had done in Manitoba, BC and   
   > Saskatchewan, under NAFTA they would have had to pay American insurance   
   > companies for their lost business, not Canadian companies.   
   > How does that help Canadians?   
   > It just shows whose interests Canadian governments serve.   
      
   Which Canuck plane manufacturer DO they work for then?   
      
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