Workers, low-income families pay the price for closer economic integration
December 4, 2003 |
National Office
OTTAWA--Free trade's promises of a significant boost to productivity growth and positive restructuring of Canadian industry have been largely unrealized, according to a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
From Leaps of Faith to Hard Landings: Fifteen Years of "Free Trade" by economist Andrew Jackson, evaluates the impacts of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in the context of the great "free trade debate" of the late 1980s.