Whose Canada? : Continental Integration, Fortress North America, and the Corporate Agenda.

Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- List of Acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- PART ONE: CONTEXT AND OVERVIEW -- 1 Canada, Free Trade, and "Deep Integration" in North America: Context, Problems, and Challenges -- Economic integration: Dubious benefits, troubling prospects -- Costing free trade: Impacts on essential services and public policy -- Costing free trade: Impacts on the environment and natural resources -- September 11 and the deep integration agenda -- Unholy alliance: The coming together of trade and security -- Framing the debate: Integration, deeper integration, and even deeper integration -- Revitalizing democracy, upholding the public good -- Moving forward: Resisting assimilation, deepening democracy -- Notes -- References -- 2 Free Trade Allies: The Making of a New Continentalism -- Politics, business, and the free trade agenda -- Continentalism: Old and new -- Canada and us hegemony -- Contesting the new continentalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Corporate Canada: Washington's Empire Loyalists -- Strategic lessons -- Corporate restructuring -- Security paradigm -- Strategic bargain? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- PART TWO: SEPTEMBER 11 AND THE DEEP INTEGRATION AGENDA -- 4 Paradigm Shift or Paradigm Twist? The Impact of the Bush Doctrine on Canada's International Position -- Economic liberalization -- Prevention: National security at home -- Retribution and pre-emption: Military force for regime change -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5 "Community of Law:" Proposals for a Strategic Deal with the United States -- Context: The political and economic conjuncture since 1994 -- After the shock: Fall 2001 -- Proposals for a new continental architecture -- The big idea: Institutional dilemmas and political realities -- Towards the big idea in small instalments -- Conclusion -- Notes.

References -- 6 Fortress North America: The Drive towards Military and Security Integration and Its Impact on Canadian Democratic Sovereignty -- After September 11: A world map redrawn -- The assault on "human security" -- The Bush Doctrine and the next phase of globalization -- Corporate Canada rallies for a "big idea" -- Building Fortress North America -- The strategic alliance between the corporate and defence lobbies -- Background to Canada-us continental military cooperation -- New commands and the Bi-National Planning Group -- National Missile Defence -- Confronting the militarycorporate lobby -- A reinvigorated movement is needed -- Notes -- References -- 7 Risking Rights: An Assessment of Canadian Border Security Policies -- Securing the nation with immigration law -- Border (in)security -- Racial profiling -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- PART THREE: FREE TRADE: ECONOMICE AND LABOUR IMPACTS -- 8 From Leaps of Faith to Hard Landings: Fifteen Years of "Free Trade" -- The great free trade debate -- Downward harmonization: Social dimensions of the integrated economic space -- Moving forward -- Afternote -- Notes -- References -- 9 Critical Macroeconomic Aspects of Deepening North American Economic Integration -- North American commercial integration: Some stylized facts -- Macroeconomic policies: The record -- Greater North American monetary integration? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 10 All Pain, No Gain: Canadian Labour in the Integrated North American Economy -- The lost decade: The labour market in the 1990s -- Explaining the great Canadian slump of the 1990s -- The impact of economic integration on labour standards -- Conclusion: Which way for labour? -- Notes -- References -- 11 The Costs and Benefits of a Canada-us Customs Union -- Customs union and economic integration -- Eliminating rules of origin.

The downside of "common" trade policy -- US trade remedy laws, retaliation and harassment -- Assessing the bargain -- Notes -- References -- PART FOUR: FREE TRADE: IMPACTS ON PUBLIC POLICY AND CULTURE -- 12 An International Bill of Rights for Foreign Investors -- The special case of foreign investment treaties -- A revolutionary expansion of investor rights -- Deploying investor rights -- Investor rights and public services -- P3s, privatization, and investor rights -- Contracting out of nafta? -- Investor rights in search of a rationale -- The uncertain future of foreign investor rights -- Human rights not corporate rights -- Notes -- References -- 13 Impact of Trade Agreements on Subnational Governments -- Trade agreements: CUFTA,NAFTA WTO and AIT -- Education and privatization -- Trade agreements and municipalities -- What happens next? -- Notes -- References -- 14 Trade Treaties, Privatization, and Health Care Reform in Canada -- Unsafe practices: Underfunding, commercialization, and decentralization -- Recent government reports on health care reform -- Hazardous mixture: Existing trade treaties and health care reform -- Looming challenges: New trade treaty negotiations -- Conclusion: Towards healthy health care reform -- Notes -- References -- 15 Free Trade and Deep Integration in North America: Saving Canadian Culture -- The Canadian cultural dilemma -- Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement: The sell-out begins -- Pressure on Canadian cultural policies continues -- Erosion of foreign ownership limits -- Defending against cultural assimilation -- Convention on cultural diversity -- Notes -- References -- 16 Free Trade and Quebec Models of Development -- The Quiet Revolution -- Free trade in context -- The emergence of a second-generation development model -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References.

PART FIVE: DEEP INTEGRATION :IMPACTS ON ENVIRONMENT ENERGY AND PATENT LAW -- 17 Breaking the Free Trade Addiction: An Intervention on Environmental Grounds -- What we are losing: The state of Canada's environment -- Who knew? Looking back on the establishment of NAFTA -- On the sideline: nafta's environmental institutions -- The failure of strategic environmental assessment of trade agreements -- NAFTA and the (in)ability to respond to the environmental crisis -- NAFTA, climate change, and the appetite for oil -- Taking bad to worse: "The big, stupid idea" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 18 Imperialist Regulation: US Electricity Market Designs and Their Problems for Canada and Mexico -- The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) -- Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs) -- Creating larger markets -- The electricity debate in Mexico -- Canada's regulatory system -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 19 Pipelines and Pipe Dreams: Energy and Continental Security -- A match made in heaven -- Deregulation, NAFTA, and the promotion of exports -- Corporate strategies: Pressures to export -- Limits to integration -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 20 Of Harvard Mice and Prairie Farmers: Canadian Patents on Life -- What is a patent? -- The life patents debate -- Life patent reform proposals -- Conclusion -- References -- PART SIX: THE WAY FORWED: BULDING A MOVEMENT DEVELOPING ALTERNATIVES -- 21 Challenging the Forces of Deep Integration -- The facts on the ground: The materialist and political reality of assimilation -- The record of the left in challenging the right's hegemony -- The right's hegemonic campaigns -- Fighting deep integration as a counter-hegemonic struggle -- The left's organizational dilemma -- The struggle against deep integration: The Americanization of Canada -- Notes -- References.

22 Managing Canada-us Relations: An Alternative to Deep Integration -- Living with NAFTA: Constraints on policy freedom -- Can the current course be altered? -- Elements of an action plan -- Deep integration under the Martin Liberals -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Questions and concerns regarding the scope and depth of Canada's relationship with the United States loom larger than ever since 9/11. In Whose Canada?, contributors provide a comprehensive analysis of the legacy of free trade and examine the challenges that deepening bilateral integration - including its latest incarnation in the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) - presents for Canadian sovereignty and public policy autonomy. They focus on trade and economics, politics, public policy, social policy, labour, health care, education, local government, minority rights, military and security, foreign policy, culture, law, Quebec, environment, energy, and civil society. The authors share their scepticism regarding corporate Canada's continental agenda and Ottawa's deepening linkages with Washington. In response to the question "Whose Canada?" they forcefully argue that Canada's future must be shaped by the whole of its citizenry rather than a determined elite. To this end, they advance a practical vision for revitalizing democracy and upholding the public good.

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