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. It has a long way to go to be relevant. The NDP is studying where they can go following their failure to make ground in the last election.