‘Trade’ agreements and media groupthink

The Trudeau government is hell bent on ratifying two massive investment agreements, CETA and the TPP, that will radically undermine Canadian democracy.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, and U.S. President Barack Obama, pictured June 29 in Ottawa at the North American Leaders Summit. Canadians are being portrayed by our media as good little globalizers, supportive of these agreements in contrast with the badly behaved Brexiters and Trump and Sanders supporters, writes Murray Dobbin. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY MURRAY DOBBIN

July 18, 2016

POWELL RIVER, B.C.—The Trudeau government is hell bent on ratifying two massive investment agreements, CETA and the TPP, that will radically undermine Canadian democracy. Yet very few Canadians know about these deals because our mainstream media has been so irresponsible in reporting on their impa...

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