SHOULD CANADA KILL NAFTA???

Thats what happens when you move to the small town to save a 100 bucks a month rent.

you get screwed

Still doesn't explain 34 turning into 40.

I think we should kill NAFTA, In my opinion and from what I hear. Canada gets fucked in NAFTA. If U.S. want's our trade so bad, (Which I am sure they do). We can form a new agreement (Which they already want). If they don't, well there's always China, and the EU. However I would rather trade with America.

That is however my opinion for the momment, unti'll I research it more and find somebody that changes my mind

No, it came up before and it was a story off of La Voz de Aztlan about one of Mexico's then-ministers speaking to some group and claiming BC properly belonged to Mexico. I have posted the link to the specific article elsewhere on this forum but it's got to have been last year or maybe the year before when I did so. Sorry I don't remember crap like that off the top of my head but I don't.

Granted, it's a scant minority who adhere to the claim for now. But it was also a scant Mexican minority fringe that used to claim the US southwest and now their current and past Presidents have alluded to the claim.

Their quaint catchphrase is that Mexico and the US southwest are not parts of two countries, but one region with a common history.

NAFTA is just a tool for the Reconquista. Sadly, none of our politicians are standing in the way of it.

I support NAFTA even though I have been negatively affected by it (and also positively). I also support free trade agreements with Argentina even though my money losing apiary could be dealt a death blow by the influx of low cost honey (Lord I love farming).

Free and freer trade benefits the economies of all countries by allowing participants to maximise their opportunity costs.

For example, Mexico has seen two million people displaced from rural farms since 1992 and the number of farmers now sits at 500,000 as those remaining have been forced to corporatise and grow their farms to meet the NAFTA agreement in respect to large multi national ag processors and the competition of cheaper food stuffs produced in the US and Canada.

This has allowed Mexican farms to start producing far more then ever per acre thereby having a corresponding effect of keeping food prices low across the continent. The displaced farmers have found new opportunities in manufacturing factories and their standard of living has risen even though these factories pay considerably less then.

That the Canadian and American economies are moving toward high tech knowledge based industries is indisputable and part of a natural economic transition. If you still want to be able to afford manufactured goods you need to move them to an environment whereby the input costs are reduced.

Today 108.140 !!!!!

I've nor seen gas that cheap in a long time.

Today 117.160
Yesterday 117.163
One Week Ago 113.533
One Month Ago 106.996
One Year Ago 102.231

But NAFTA does not just affect oil, it affects all our resources, water, timber, coal etc. Between NAFTA and the so called Softwood lumber deal, BC has been getting screwed, without even the decency to use KY. Raw logs getting shipped south and sawmill after sawmill closing down.
Kill NAFTA? hell yes, nuke it.

I honestly don't know, it seems that to drop it now would be next to impossible. Wether or not it was a good thing is debateable, I don't know enough about it. It seems Canada has had a great last 10 - 15 years of economic growth, how much did NAFTA have to do with that? I don't know.

Oil is a different issue for me. I wish that a NEP went through

I don't understand why a country that exports oil has to be at the mercy of world oil prices. We need more refineries and to be oil self sufficient ant set our own market price. If we had a NEP this might have happened and we might still have $0.36 gas prices. But of course the green in me says that might not be a good thing, heh.