Are we witnessing the beginning of the end of globalization?

Once members of the political elite begin to question the high priests of free trade the spell is broken and all sorts of alternative political narratives present themselves.

The increasing grim inequality has revealed the broken promise and American workers are pissed. That is in large part what drives the mind-boggling Trump phenomenon in the U.S.Photograph courtesy of Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY MURRAY DOBBIN

May 30, 2016

POWELL RIVER, B.C.—At the height of the battle over the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) the biggest pushers of the deal, the Business Council on National Issues (the 160 largest public corporations) took out full page ads promising the country it would bring “more jobs, better jobs.” It...

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