[news] "Free Trade" Has Cost Us Dearly

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September 24, 2004 | By Murray Dobbin - Globe and Mail (Recently we) saw fierce controversy in the labour movement as Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) president Ken Georgetti tried desperately to explain to his federation members' media - read CanWest - claims that he now supported free trade. In an email to CLC union heads Georgetti stated official CLC policy: "We continue to oppose NAFTA and other similar trade deals." But the speech reported on, and a CLC position paper on the economy, were much more ambiguous. Georgetti talked of a North American economy and how, regarding NAFTA, it was hard to "unscramble an omelette." The CLC paper said free trade had not been the "economic disaster" once predicted.

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