Harrysiemens1's List: Trade - All

The UN talks on climate change and World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations (better known as Doha Round) have been dragging on for many years without success. And there was no hope that striking a deal to save Mother Nature and free up global trade was possible in the foreseeable future. The selfish wealthy nations are to blame for the failure to conclude negotiations on the two critical global issues.

What we have witnessed over the past 16 years is the endless bickering in the WTO between industrial nations and the developing countries (which are supposed to benefit most from the Doha Round). We have seen a failure in the WTO’s 149 members’ bid to remove the tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade in agriculture, industrial goods and services as well as trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights and bio-diversity issues

More open U.S. border helps us all
By JIM MERRIAM
Posted 2 hours ago
There has been little negative reaction to the proposed "expedited border" deal between Canada and the United States.

Of course the usual suspects were tut-tutting about loss of sovereignty, privacy and such.

Among them was Maude Barlow, who as chair of the Council of Canadians is the left's answer to John Baird.

However, even Barlow's sounds of alarm were surprisingly muted.

There was very little "the sky is falling and will cover us in a blanket woven of tabloid TV, water boarding and cavity searches on street corners."