{"id":65729,"date":"2020-05-08T08:30:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T12:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=65729"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:09","slug":"haggart-canada-needs-to-see-the-u-s-and-its-trade-motives-clearly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/05\/haggart-canada-needs-to-see-the-u-s-and-its-trade-motives-clearly\/","title":{"rendered":"HAGGART: Canada needs to see the U.S. and its trade motives clearly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blayne Haggart, Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock University, had a piece recently published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/canada-needs-to-see-the-u-s-and-its-trade-motives-clearly-136161?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%208%202020&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%208%202020+CID_8afaae1d88f20147aacd1ddcb30133cc&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Canada%20needs%20to%20see%20the%20US%20and%20its%20trade%20motives%20clearly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> about Canada\u2019s reliance on free trade and the problems that come with that ideology.<\/p>\n<p>He writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cExistential crises that threaten one\u2019s entire society have a way of forcing us to see the world as it truly is. The coronavirus pandemic is no exception. Canada, once mocked by\u00a0South Park\u00a0as \u201cnot even a real country anyway,\u201d has come together in remarkable fashion. Canadians and their leaders, from every region and across the political spectrum, are all pushing in the same direction.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But while the pandemic has showcased the country\u2019s inspiring cohesiveness, it has also revealed the tragic costs, measured in lives lost and economic opportunity squandered, of Canada\u2019s continued adherence to a one-dimensional ideology that long ago passed its best-before date.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Since the 1990s, Canadian economic development policy has been anchored in two words: free trade. The previously widely accepted notion that countries should have an industrial policy \u2014 a strategy for encouraging strong and desirable economic growth \u2014 was cast aside in the single-minded pursuit of comprehensive trade agreements<\/em><em>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/canada-needs-to-see-the-u-s-and-its-trade-motives-clearly-136161?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%208%202020&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%208%202020+CID_8afaae1d88f20147aacd1ddcb30133cc&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Canada%20needs%20to%20see%20the%20US%20and%20its%20trade%20motives%20clearly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blayne Haggart, Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock University, had a piece recently published in The Conversation about Canada\u2019s reliance on free trade and the problems that come with that ideology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,38],"tags":[3445,4104,522,42,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65744,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65729\/revisions\/65744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}