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DEFENDING DEMOCRACY: Public Protests Needed to Stop Canada's "Corporatization"
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I just listened to an interview on CBC Radio with former Deputy Prime Minister John Manley on why the proposed Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) agreement with the United States and Mexico is important to Canada, why giving up some sovereignty at border crossings into the U.S. is worth it, why behind-closed-doors negotiations on this deal are justified, and how our representative democracy precludes any need for the federal government to hear from civil society on whether the tradeoffs inherent in the "partnership" are acceptable.
I also heard Thomas d'Aquino, CEO of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and an architect (along with Manley) of the SPP, disparage …
