Over the last 30 years, the CCPA has provided alternative research and analysis that have been indispensable in exposing the corporate agenda. I don’t know what I’d have done without them.
— Judy Rebick
June 1, 2006
Several prominent critics of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), including NDP leader Jack Layton, have proposed that its defects—including repeated U.S. refusals to honour its terms—can be corrected by renegotiating this treaty.
Before examining this proposal, it should first be kept in mind that the central problem caused by NAFTA—and by the previous Canada-U.S. Free trade Agreement—is the loss of Canadian autonomy.