Chretien could go even further and institute a nonreciprocal waiving of all tariffs on goods that come into Canada from any of the world's poorest nations, starting with those in the Americas. B. C. Time's reporting on the Quebec Summit was unabashedly propagandistic. By publishing the comments of a few elitist economists and trade ministers, you have made your class allegiances clear.
Free trade has nothing to do with the world's poor.
They are still poor, but now they are the slaves of American private power interests. Within the borders of rich nations, the wages of the majority have stagnated and not kept pace with those in the top few percent. So please don't claim that these trade agreements are about de-mocracy. Once people in developing countries find out what these policies do to them and their livelihoods, no one will want them. Richard Thompson Winnipeg, Man.