The Trudeau government’s relentless push for a "progressive trade" agenda – one that tries to impose labour and environmental standards on trade partners, along with protections for vulnerable groups – has managed to annoy just about everyone.
The left thinks "progressive trade" is an oxymoron. Right-wingers think it’s politically correct nonsense.
Our most important trade partners, meanwhile, find it a distracting roadblock at best, and an arrogant stunt at worst. After some grumbling, members of the revised Trans-Pacific Partnership – now called the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership – have accepted some of our progressive demands (they even put […]
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