Later this month, my caucus colleagues and I will join thousands of Canadians in Quebec City to protest the secret negotiations concerning the Free Trade Area of the Americas. In recent years, capital has been globalizing at a rate the world hasn't seen since the 18th century.
Currency speculation happens in seconds.
Thanks to the Internet, money crosses borders at the push of a button. Investments come and go around the globe with blinding speed. Transnational corporations have successfully jumped the fences of national borders - and are increasingly impervious to the laws and regulations of democratic sovereign states. With the party losing political market share it has to re-define itself in terms that apply to the new millennium. Indeed the party should take a pro-active stance providing economic remedies leading the country away from reliance upon natural resources to high technology manufacturing.