Whose Canada? : Continental Integration, Fortress North America, and the Corporate Agenda - Ricardo Grinspun

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Whose Canada?

Continental Integration, Fortress North America, and the Corporate Agenda

By: Ricardo Grinspun, Yasmine Shamsie

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Hardcover | 2 April 2007

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Contributors include Sharryn Aiken (Queen's), Maude Barlow (Council of Canadians), Dorval Brunelle (UQAM), Duncan Cameron (SFU), Bruce Campbell (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, CCPA), Tony Clarke (Polaris Institute), Stephen Clarkson (Toronto), Marjorie Griffin Cohen (Simon Fraser), Kathy Corrigan (Canadian Union of Public Employees), Murray Dobbin (CCPA), Jim Grieshaber-Otto (CCPA), Andrew Jackson (Canadian Labour Congress), Marc Lee (CCPA), Benoît Levesque (UQAM), Elizabeth May (Green Party), Garry Neil (International Network for Cultural Diversity), Larry Pratt (Alberta), David Robinson (Canadian Association for University Teachers), Mario Seccareccia (Ottawa), Steven Shrybman (Sack, Goldblatt, & Mitchell), Scott Sinclair (CCPA), Steven Staples (Ceasefire.ca), and Michelle Swenarchuk (Canadian Environmental Law Association).

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"This book addresses the most pressing issue facing Canadians today - our nation's future in Fortress North America. In Whose Canada? you will find the views and concerns of the most engaged thinkers and activists in our country. The issues dealt with in this remarkable book, beautifully crafted, are the core questions of our era. For Canadians, in essence, what is at stake is the kind of society in which we live, the legacy we will leave for our children, and Canada's role within a troubled world." Maude Barlow, author of Too Close For Comfort: Canadas Future Within Fortress North America

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Tables and Figures	p. xi
List of Acronyms	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Foreword	p. xxi
Context and Overview	p. 1
Canada, Free Trade, and "Deep Integration" in North America: Context, Problems, and Challenges	p. 3
Economic integration: Dubious benefits, troubling prospects	p. 8
Costing free trade: Impacts on essential services and public policy	p. 12
Costing free trade: Impacts on the environment and natural resources	p. 15
September 11 and the deep integration agenda	p. 18
Unholy alliance: The coming together of trade and security	p. 23
Framing the debate: Integration, deeper integration, and even deeper integration	p. 29
Revitalizing democracy, upholding the public good	p. 32
Moving forward: Resisting assimilation, deepening democracy	p. 38
Notes	p. 44
References	p. 47
Free Trade Allies: The Making of a New Continentalism	p. 54
Politics, business, and the free trade agenda	p. 55
Continentalism: Old and new	p. 58
Canada and US hegemony	p. 64
Contesting the new continentalism	p. 67
Conclusion	p. 69
Notes	p. 70
References	p. 71
Corporate Canada: Washington's Empire Loyalists	p. 74
Strategic lessons	p. 76
Corporate restructuring	p. 80
Security paradigm	p. 85
Strategic bargain?	p. 88
Conclusion	p. 98
Notes	p. 100
References	p. 101
September 11 and the Deep Integration Agenda	p. 105
Paradigm Shift or Paradigm Twist? The Impact of the Bush Doctrine on Canada's International Position	p. 107
Economic liberalization	p. 109
Prevention: National security at home	p. 110
Retribution and pre-emption: Military force for regime change	p. 115
Conclusion	p. 120
Notes	p. 125
References	p. 126
"Community of Law:" Proposals for a Strategic Deal with the United States	p. 129
Context: The political and economic conjuncture since 1994	p. 130
After the shock: Fall 2001	p. 132
Proposals for a new continental architecture	p. 134
The big idea: Institutional dilemmas and political realities	p. 142
Towards the big idea in small instalments	p. 148
Conclusion	p. 150
Notes	p. 151
References	p. 151
Fortress North America: The Drive towards Military and Security Integration and Its Impact on Canadian Democratic Sovereignty	p. 154
After September 11: A world map redrawn	p. 155
The assault on "human security"	p. 155
The Bush Doctrine and the next phase of globalization	p. 156
Corporate Canada rallies for a "big idea"	p. 159
Building Fortress North America	p. 161
The strategic alliance between the corporate and defence lobbies	p. 162
Background to Canada-US continental military cooperation	p. 164
New commands and the Bi-National Planning Group	p. 167
National Missile Defence	p. 170
Confronting the military-corporate lobby	p. 172
A reinvigorated movement is needed	p. 175
Notes	p. 176
References	p. 177
Risking Rights: An Assessment of Canadian Border Security Policies	p. 180
Securing the nation with immigration law	p. 182
Border (in)security	p. 188
Racial profiling	p. 192
Conclusion	p. 200
Notes	p. 202
References	p. 203
Free Trade: Economic and Labour Impacts	p. 209
From Leaps of Faith to Hard Landings: Fifteen Years of "Free Trade"	p. 211
The great free trade debate	p. 212
Downward harmonization: Social dimensions of the integrated economic space	p. 221
Moving forward	p. 230
Afternote	p. 231
Notes	p. 232
References	p. 232
Critical Macroeconomic Aspects of Deepening North American Economic Integration	p. 234
North American commercial integration: Some stylized facts	p. 236
Macroeconomic policies: The record	p. 241
Greater North American monetary integration?	p. 250
Conclusion	p. 252
Notes	p. 253
References	p. 256
All Pain, No Gain: Canadian Labour in the Integrated North American Economy	p. 259
The lost decade: The labour market in the 1990s	p. 260
Explaining the great Canadian slump of the 1990s	p. 265
The impact of economic integration on labour standards	p. 272
Conclusion: Which way for labour?	p. 275
Notes	p. 276
References	p. 277
The Costs and Benefits of a Canada-US Customs Union	p. 280
Customs union and economic integration	p. 281
Eliminating rules of origin	p. 285
The downside of "common" trade policy	p. 287
US trade remedy laws, retaliation and harassment	p. 290
Assessing the bargain	p. 291
Notes	p. 293
References	p. 294
Free Trade: Impacts on Public Policy and Culture	p. 297
An International Bill of Rights for Foreign Investors	p. 299
The special case of foreign investment treaties	p. 299
A revolutionary expansion of investor rights	p. 300
Deploying investor rights	p. 302
Investor rights and public services	p. 304
P3s, privatization, and investor rights	p. 305
Contracting out of NAFTA?	p. 309
Investor rights in search of a rationale	p. 310
The uncertain future of foreign investor rights	p. 312
Human rights not corporate rights	p. 313
Notes	p. 313
References	p. 314
Impact of Trade Agreements on Subnational Governments	p. 317
Trade agreements: CUFTA, NAFTA, WTO and AIT	p. 317
Education and privatization	p. 327
Trade agreements and municipalities	p. 333
What happens next?	p. 337
Notes	p. 339
References	p. 340
Trade Treaties, Privatization, and Health Care Reform in Canada	p. 343
Unsafe practices: Underfunding, commercialization, and decentralization	p. 344
Recent government reports on health care reform	p. 348
Hazardous mixture: Existing trade treaties and health care reform	p. 351
Looming challenges: New trade treaty negotiations	p. 358
Conclusion: Towards healthy health care reform	p. 364
Notes	p. 367
References	p. 368
Free Trade and Deep Integration in North America: Saving Canadian Culture	p. 371
The Canadian cultural dilemma	p. 372
Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement: The sell-out begins	p. 375
Pressure on Canadian cultural policies continues	p. 379
Erosion of foreign ownership limits	p. 383
Defending against cultural assimilation	p. 385
Convention on cultural diversity	p. 386
Notes	p. 388
References	p. 389
Free Trade and Quebec Models of Development	p. 391
The Quiet Revolution	p. 391
Free trade in context	p. 394
The emergence of a second-generation development model	p. 395
Conclusion	p. 400
Notes	p. 402
References	p. 404
Deep Integration: Impacts on Environment, Energy, and Patent Law	p. 407
Breaking the Free Trade Addiction: An Intervention on Environmental Grounds	p. 409
What we are losing: The state of Canada's environment	p. 411
Who knew? Looking back on the establishment of NAFTA	p. 414
On the sideline: NAFTA's environmental institutions	p. 417
The failure of strategic environmental assessment of trade agreements	p. 419
NAFTA and the (in)ability to respond to the environmental crisis	p. 421
NAFTA, climate change, and the appetite for oil	p. 424
Taking bad to worse: "The big, stupid idea"	p. 430
Conclusion	p. 433
Notes	p. 434
References	p. 435
Imperialist Regulation: US Electricity Market Designs and Their Problems for Canada and Mexico	p. 439
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)	p. 440
Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs)	p. 442
Creating larger markets	p. 446
The electricity debate in Mexico	p. 448
Canada's regulatory system	p. 450
Conclusion	p. 453
Notes	p. 454
References	p. 456
Pipelines and Pipe Dreams: Energy and Continental Security	p. 459
A match made in heaven	p. 462
Deregulation, NAFTA, and the promotion of exports	p. 466
Corporate strategies: Pressures to export	p. 470
Limits to integration	p. 473
Conclusion	p. 477
Notes	p. 478
References	p. 479
Of Harvard Mice and Prairie Farmers: Canadian Patents on Life	p. 481
What is a patent?	p. 482
The life patents debate	p. 483
Life patent reform proposals	p. 493
Conclusion	p. 495
References	p. 496
The Way Forward: Building a Movement, Developing Alternatives	p. 499
Challenging the Forces of Deep Integration	p. 501
The facts on the ground: The materialist and political reality of assimilation	p. 503
The record of the left in challenging the right's hegemony	p. 505
The right's hegemonic campaigns	p. 507
Fighting deep integration as a counter-hegemonic struggle	p. 512
The left's organizational dilemma	p. 517
The struggle against deep integration: The Americanization of Canada	p. 519
Notes	p. 526
References	p. 527
Managing Canada-us Relations: An Alternative to Deep Integration	p. 529
Living with NAFTA: Constraints on policy freedom	p. 531
Can the current course be altered?	p. 532
Elements of an action plan	p. 534
Deep integration under the Martin Liberals	p. 539
Conclusion	p. 542
Notes	p. 544
References	p. 544
Contributors	p. 547
Index	p. 553
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