David Orchard on NAFTA renegotiation, Gus Van Harten on TPP

Program Title: Free Trade Fantasies: Canada Must Reject Both NAFTA and TPP
Description: On this week's episode of the Global Research News Hour, as Canada's Federal Government negotiates both the 25 year old North American Free Trade Agreement and the refurbished version of the 11 country Trans-Pacific Partnership, we spend the hour discussing these agreements with two voices of dissent on the supposed virtue of these trade agreements.
David Orchard is an organic farmer, environmental activist, and two-time contender for the leadership of the PRogressive Conservative Party of Canada. He is also the author of The Fight for Canada: Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism.
Gus Van Harten is Associate Professor of Law at York University's Osgood Hall Law School, and author of the paper: Foreign investor protections in the Trans-Pacific
Partnership for te Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Host(s): Michael Welch
Featured Speakers/Guests: Gus Van Harten, David Orchard

Credits: Interviews by Michael Welch
Song: State of the Union by Thievery Corporation - From the Album "Richest Man in Babylon"

Comments: