The grubby little secret here is that New Zealand public health officials have been recommending the decriminalistion of of marijuana, so as to better treat it as a health issue. Ah, but emotive generalisations came come from the left as well. Especially from the left, in some cases. Fitzsimmons went on to castigate any Kiwis who thought the right to shop outweighed all else. New Zealanders are losing their jobs because of cheap imports and we get those imports because in other countries workers, including kids as young as six, are working in inhuman conditions for poor wages.
Free trade is the freedom to exploit.
I buy Italian pasta and our space heater is Italian too. My kids, on the other hand, wear New Zealand-made shoes, which are a little more expensive but more durable. Donald would have us create - all boundaries, borders, tariffs, duties, quotas and petty economic nationalism. He ignores the fact that national boundaries are dissolving anyway, and that free trade zones can actually raise working standards - the European Community's social charter, for example, is so enlightened that Britain is refusing to meet it. I've stopped going to Shell stations because of Nigeria - but don't insult the intelligence by presenting human commerce as the work of the devil.