The Honourable Roy MacLaren: An Interview with Mr. Free Trade
The Honourable Roy MacLaren, a graduate of Cambridge University (U.K.), is a former Foreign Service officer and the author of several books, including Canadians behind enemy lines: 1939-45. His distinguished career in politics culminated in his nomination as Minister for International Trade…
Letters // Correspondance
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Faith and Fear: The Free Trade Story
In the Spring 1992 issue of bout de papier, Michael Hart concentrated his considerable firepower on two books by Linda McQuaig and Mel Hurtig claiming that the 1988 Canada-US Free Trade Agreement represented the abdication of Canadian independence, the seduction of Ottawa…
Citizens Irving — K.C. Irving and His Legacy
John DeMont was raised in Saint John, New Brunswick, within the sight, sound and smell of the Irving pulp and paper mill. He rode on Irving buses fuelled with Irving gasoline refined in Irving’s Saint John refinery, Canada’s largest. Riding across town…
Excerpt from Red Tory Blues
Senator Heath Macquarrie was the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for the Prince Edward Island constituency of Hillsborough (still the dual riding of Queens when he was first elected in 1957) for over twenty years. He never became a cabinet minister, but…
Letters // Correspondance
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Nationalist Gobbledegook: The Free Trade Papers
It has now been four years since Brian Mulroney and Ronald Reagan signed the free-trade pact and the mythmakers are out in full force trying to craft revisionist accounts of how we got there. Three books with free trade as their main…
Free Trade — The Real Story
The book is a collection of interesting essays on issues relating to the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA). David Bercuson, the Calgary historian, details how a number of our prime ministers supported some form of free trade with the United States to…
Commerce sans frontières; Leap of Faith: Free Trade and the Future of Canada; Taking the Initiative: Canada’s Trade Options in a Turbulent World; The United States and Canada: The Quest for Free Trade
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Free Trade, 1911 and All of That
Draw near to the fire this stormy windswept night, and bout de papier will tell you a Canadian ghost story.
