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:: Thursday, January 01, 2004 ::
TRADE-CANADA: Numbers Up, Workers Down After 10 Years of NAFTA By Mark Bourrie, IPS
North America's trade deal drove down the real wages of Canadian workers by about 20 percent -- if they did not lose their jobs altogether, says globalisation critic Murray Dobbin, author of a critical book about Canada's new prime minister, Paul Martin.
”All of the studies have shown that workers in Mexico, the U.S. and Canada have not profited from NAFTA,” says Dobbin, whose book 'Paul Martin: CEO for Canada', argues the multi-millionaire prime minister broke the unions in his companies, closed domestic shipyards and registered his fleet under ”flags of convenience” to drive down wages and workplace rights.
”Proponents of the deal have a mantra of 'competitiveness', but what we've seen is a race to the bottom as governments erode workers' rights, wages and environmental regulations to try to be more competitive,” Dobbin told IPS.------------------------------------------- posted 10:04 AM :: reference link ::
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